Professional

I have been working with industrial controls systems (or ICS-adjacent) for 11 years, initially in power generation at Emerson, and for the past 3 years at Intel. I have a deep interest in critical infrastructure and safety-critical design, particularly in understanding how and why systems fail (I’ve spent countless hours studying after-action reports from industrial incidents). More recently I have shifted to more of a software architect role, designing and programming applications that integrate flows of data from different sources (IoT, Robotics, PLCs) and consolidate them for additional processing (inference, etc) or storage in real time DBs. Working from a software perspective has helped me notice that distributed systems are bottom-up, and the amount of information exposed by data sources in the form of metadata will define everything else, including end user experience and business processes. This includes everything down to naming conventions and connection points at the lowest level.

Personal

Born in Spain, raised in WI, USA and living in Costa Rica for the past 25 years.

I am an amateur ecologist, currently working on environmental/wildlife monitoring projects in my neighborhood. I also enjoy hiking/rucking, trying to make a habit of starting in the early morning every day. I am an avid reader, mostly philosophy but starting to delve into anthropology and deep ecology.