About
My career began at a public university in Costa Rica. I still teach there.
In February 2011 I took a part-time job as a junior systems engineer at Universidad Nacional in Heredia. I looked after Linux servers and Active Directory and built the department’s website.
From there I went where the problems got harder. At Baum I built e-commerce and booking systems for hospitality and luxury brands. At Hangar Worldwide I was promoted from back-end developer to Technology Lead, working on digital platforms for Fortune 500 clients.
In 2022 I became Director of Engineering at Soom, a regulated SaaS for medical-device manufacturers. I was the most senior technologist in the company, answering to the CEO and investors. I led four managers, hired the Costa Rica team, and we rebuilt the live product in five months.
In 2023 I co-founded Pangea Holdings and ran its technology as CTO until July 2026: two managers, 15 engineers, and AI systems that had to work on Monday morning for real customers.
Since 2025 I’ve been a Learning Facilitator on MIT Professional Education programs in applied generative and agentic AI, in collaboration with Global Alumni. It is a facilitation role, not employment by MIT. Senior leaders from around the world bring me the question I keep meeting in delivery: what is worth building, and who will own it?
And in 2023 I went back to Universidad Nacional, this time as an ad honorem professor.
How I lead
Two rooms, one person accountable.
Most transformations stall between the executive room and the delivery room. Investment, risk and priorities get decided in one. Architecture, cadence and talent get decided in the other. I stay accountable in both, because that gap is usually where the money goes missing.
What I hold to
- Technology does not transform organizations. Leaders do.
- Predictable delivery is a leadership job. You can’t hand it to the team and hope.
- An architecture decision should lower risk and raise throughput. If it does only one, ask why.
- AI belongs where you can measure the value, govern the risk and actually ship the thing.
- Say the uncomfortable thing early. I once challenged a rushed upgrade on sites with 30,000 to 40,000 daily visits, laid out the risks and a staged plan, and we shipped with no data loss.
Where this is going
Costa Rica stays home base.
Next, I want a senior technology or AI role with real authority over the outcome.
Over the longer term, I want to do at a larger scale what I already do at Universidad Nacional and in MIT cohorts: help this region produce the people who lead this technology, as well as the people who build it.
Education
MBA in Artificial Intelligence
University of Cumbria, through Robert Kennedy College. Dissertation pending.
Chief Technology Officer Program, Blended Professional Certificate
MIT Professional Education
Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
Software Architecture: Principles and Practices
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Languages
Spanish (native). English (C2).
Away from work
Golf for patience. Horseback riding, because a horse can tell when you’re not calm. Travel, because it keeps showing me what I assumed.