I was born into a modest family in a coastal city in Ecuador, where my first job experiences were at banana farms, stores and shining shoes. As soon as I finished high school, 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 after one semester I migrated to the USA due to the severe economic crisis in Ecuador. I arrived in New York City, where I worked for 4 years in various jobs as an undocumented immigrant. In the meantime, I attended night school learning English and obtaining a GED, which allowed me to rejoin my studies at NOVA in 2006 in the Washington DC area.
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 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 Center 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 16+ 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.