HARDWARE + SOFTWARE
Engineer, robotics, computer vision, and kinetic art
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Senior Software Engineer, Robotics
On the Technology Adoption team, moving research into Toyota production. Working with the mobile manipulation team on an API to control a warehouse robot. Also developed monocular depth estimation applications and a combined hardware and software developer kit for a soft-bubble sensor used in robotics research.
Lead Software Engineer
Tech lead on Target’s Strategy & Innovation team. Led development of Target’s voice agent for Google Assistant, making Target the first retailer to launch a complete shopping action on the platform. Managed engineering for Target’s experiential retail lab store in San Francisco and handled data engineering for auto-replenishment of household goods. Also built tools for machine learning projects, including annotation, sentiment analysis, and synthetic data generation.
Senior Android and Backend Engineer
hiku was a voice-enabled IoT device that remembered for you and shopped for you. Early employee. Developed its native Android companion app and an SDK for partners’ Android shopping apps, plus backend services that search, recommend, and add products through third-party shopping partners to speed up ordering. It was backed by Morado Ventures, Plug and Play Accelerator, AME Cloud Ventures, and First Round Capital.
Performance and Scalability Consultant
Optimized high-volume, high-availability distributed systems for major retailers and government clients. Delivered end-to-end analysis across Java code, application servers, databases, and system architecture, and led root-cause investigations on complex cases.
Co-founder and CTO
Contextual advertising for video.
Co-founder and CTO
Social commerce company focused on the Latino market.
Software Engineer
Early employee. Designed Java enterprise applications for wireless carriers’ self-service provisioning.
Co-founder and CTO
Launched a pioneering site (1999) for the Hispanic online community, featuring original content, news, email, search, and forums.
Research Engineer
Researched novel non-invasive and minimally invasive blood glucose measurement technologies. Designed platforms for research on visual and pain perception.
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Originator, Software and Curriculum Lead
Outreach by TRI’s HOLA ERG (Employee Resource Group), bringing hands-on robotics workshops to students at Hope Horizon in East Palo Alto and Compass Mentorship in Alviso. Built around HolaBot, our custom robot kit that students program with Blockly’s visual blocks, test in simulation, and load onto the robot over USB. Originated the kit, enlisted volunteers to assemble the kits, and wrote the curriculum and workshop software.
Co-founder
A network of Latino entrepreneurs, featured by the Huffington Post, Forbes, and NBC.
Co-founder
Spark America’s Youth Startups program teaches entrepreneurship to high school students in San Francisco. Winner of the 2012 Latino Heritage Month Innovation Award.
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Author and curator
An educational blog and art project tracing more than 100 years of AI milestones and contrasting them with how science fiction has portrayed AI. Exhibited the decade-by-decade installation on campus at Georgia Tech, and was invited to speak at MIT on reconstructing Minsky’s SNARC, the first artificial neural network.
A kinetic sculpture of clicking electromechanical relays mounted in a brain-shaped frame, echoing Shannon’s Theseus (1950) and Minsky’s SNARC (1951). The clicking accelerates from a slow 1950s cadence into a frantic blur, and each cycle lands on a random AGI-arrival year drawn from real predictions.
A robotic sculpture built from a recycled bike fork and reclaimed actuator arms, examining the language of machines: humor, nudges, flattery, and the soft mechanics of persuasion.
Conceived this piñata for TRI’s 10th anniversary, and the institute’s HOLA ERG built it together. It fuses the Mexican piñata tradition with the kitsune, the nine-tailed fox spirit of Japanese folklore.
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Interactive surround-sound audio project.
The workbench (workbed?) for mobile Tupperware robots.
High school weekends were usually filled with academic competitions, with the occasional hardware/software competition mixed in.