About
I'm a Senior Associate Software Engineer at Xtillion, an AI and data engineering consultancy. My first project was an internal platform the operations and HR teams use every day for timesheets, time off, approvals, and staffing. I worked across the full stack in TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. I've since moved on to client work for a large pharmacy benefit manager, using .NET, Azure, and AI agents to automate documentation for their Medication Therapy Management process.
Before Xtillion, I did contract work with Snac PR, where I designed and shipped a user access-request and identity-provisioning microservice for the PR Department of Justice. I also spent over a year owning Bioresults (HL7 lab-result ingestion) and contributing across BioPortal, Puerto Rico's public health surveillance platform, on a .NET 10 and Angular stack. 6+ years of industry work behind it.
Before this stretch, I spent two years on doctoral research in cybersecurity, looking at confidentiality, integrity, and availability tradeoffs in Internet of Medical Things devices. I finished a graduate degree at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. The tension between security and usability from that research still shows up in my work today.
A few years back I automated a nightly job at the Puerto Rico judiciary, so staff no longer had to come in on Saturdays to process protection orders. I'm still proudest of that one.
Experience
Senior Associate Software Engineer · Xtillion
Client work for a large pharmacy benefit manager, building an ASP.NET Core endpoint that uses an MCP server and an AI agent to generate the documentation required for Medication Therapy Management (MTM). It automates the most tedious step of the process so people can spend that time on other work. Before that, built and maintained the company's internal platform for timesheets, time off, approvals, and staffing, moving employment history to an event-based model, retiring eight legacy tables, and fixing timezone bugs that shifted Puerto Rico users' dates by a day.
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) · Puerto Rico Department of Health
Owned Bioresults (HL7 lab-result ingestion) and contributed across BioPortal, Puerto Rico's health surveillance platform. Worked directly with labs across the island and mentored mid-level engineers through planning and review.
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) · Snac PR
Designed and shipped the RCI access-request and identity-provisioning microservice for the PR Department of Justice, which now runs in production. It handles access management and connects to centralized identity services across government systems.
Software Engineer · Akcelita
Designed and shipped an encryption service that let the internal platform handle sensitive data without re-architecting its APIs. Refactored 15+ endpoints around it and built an admin-only Workpages feature with role-based access.
Software Engineer · Puerto Rico Department of Health
Maintained and extended Puerto Rico's public health surveillance platforms. Contributed to BioData (the public portal for infectious diseases) and to BioPortal, the platform health professionals use to report notifiable diseases.
Back-End Engineer II · INVID
Automated the daily generation of protection orders for Puerto Rico's judicial branch, so staff no longer had to come in on Saturdays to process them. Also shipped the end-to-end renewal and payment flow for a major car insurance provider.
Software Engineer II · INVID
Shipped features and platform improvements across three of the Puerto Rico judiciary's core systems: SUMAC (case management used by judges and court staff island-wide), RUA (the official attorney registry), and SIGNO (the notarial records system).
Software Engineer I · Wovenware
Maintained and extended COPS, a SOAP-integrated sales tool for Claro PR's telecom offerings. Shipped features across Java web applications serving high-traffic customer portals.
Mobile Developer (Internship) · Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service
Contributed to accessibility improvements on Cesco Digital, the Puerto Rico government's consumer-facing mobile app, including code changes that enabled blind users to navigate the app with assistive technology.
Education
Master of Engineering, Computer Engineering
Software Engineering Concentration · Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Received a Design Project Expo Award for capstone work on unemployment and socioeconomic factors in Puerto Rico.
PhD Coursework, Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
- Completed 34 graduate credits as a recipient of the GAANN Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education).
- Research focused on CIA security models for internet-connected FDA Class I medical devices in manufacturing environments.
- Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper accepted to NSTA 2020, Computational Thinking Approach in K-12 Biology, with Dean Miriam Pabón and high school teacher Elena Bobonis. The conference was canceled due to COVID-19.
B.S. Computer Science
University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Columbus State University, summer 2017. Built a remote proctored-exam prototype with a Raspberry Pi, a webcam, and networking hardware.
Projects
BioPortal & Bioresults
Public health surveillance for Puerto Rico. Handles HL7 v2.5.1 lab-result ingestion from labs across the island and migrates legacy records into new investigation workflows.
BioData
Public data portal for infectious diseases, health systems, and public health data in Puerto Rico. Open-access complement to BioPortal.
RCI — Identity Provisioning
Replaced a manual process where the DOJ subdirector fielded daily email requests for Active Directory access, validated them by hand, and activated accounts one by one. Automated intake from authorized agencies (PR Police, FBI, and others), with approval workflows, audit logging, and end-to-end account provisioning in AD and the application database.
Protection Orders Automation
Automated the daily generation of protection orders for Puerto Rico's judicial branch using SSIS and SQL Server. Eliminated weekend office visits for judicial staff.
GenCyber-IoT
A SQL injection demonstration tool built for the Ladies Can Code edition of GenCyber, a federally-funded summer camp focused on bringing young girls into cybersecurity. I designed and taught workshops on ethical hacking, network topology, programming with Ozobots, and IoT; this was the hands-on tool for the SQL injection workshop. Students typed a classic injection payload into a login form running against a Raspberry Pi and watched a database spill its contents.