I was born into a modest family in a coastal city south of Ecuador, where my first job experiences were at banana farms and my grandfather’s food store. My first business endeavor was at the age of 16 right after high school when I tried opening the second “cyber cafe” in Ecuador, but I felt short of investment and planning. I continued to engineering school at ESPOL but decided to take on an opportunity to migrate to the USA due to the severe economic crisis. I arrived in New York City, where I worked for 4 years in various manual labor jobs as an undocumented immigrant, while attending night school learning English and obtaining a GED, which allowed me to rejoin my studies at a community college in the Washington DC area in 2006.
I transferred to Virginia Tech to continue my engineering studies but moved shortly after that to do research in Cornell University biomedical sensors. I was then accepted to join University of Illinois at U-C, which had top program in my both fields of study: computer and electrical engineering. There I published my first scientific paper while I was part of the Nano-sensors Institute, from which a patent was granted for my design and algorithms using photon-based biosensors.
I have worked at General Electric, setting the foundation for the automation program in their substation designs. Also, I was part of an exchange program studying German while working for Norgren (Germany), building and programming robotic arms at factories like Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz. I was a lead programmer at the National Institute for Supercomputing Applications, and a researcher for the Biosensors Lab in Cornell university focused on designing microelectronic sensors. I have also participated in various competitions such as the International Renewable Design (2nd place), Microsoft's Hackathon (3rd: 2015, 2nd : 2017 amongst more than 1K submissions) where I was granted a patent for one of my designs. In 2015, I was selected to be part of the 4-member team that represented Microsoft at the annual White House hackathon; we scored first place amongst other top companies like Accenture, Boston Consulting, Google, and AWS.
In 2013, I joined Microsoft as a software engineer, building large scale solutions for enterprises, then became a cloud architect. Then I transitioned into giving technical talks and served as a technical and strategic advisor for various fortune 500 corporations. Since 2016, I fully focused on AI (artificial intelligence), specifically on Neural Networks for the recognition of human language by computers (NLP).
In 2017, I moved to Miami, FL and founded Kmeleon, which today is a team of 14+ experts from around the world, pioneering Generative AI solutions for enterprises. I am also a board member at Prison Scholar Fund, an investor, and I speak about technology, strategy and innovation in various events and media interviews.
