AI governance asks for two kinds of fluency that rarely live in one person: regulatory and accountability frameworks on one side, shipping real production systems on the other. I work across both, and I ship governance into the products I run. One powers 76 live news markets from a single codebase. One is a commercial research tool with Stripe payments. One is a healthcare directory covering 56,779 providers, every fact carrying a trust tier and a last-verified date. Shipped on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs. Combat veteran. Bilingual English and Spanish, both native.
I ship AI products and design the context engineering layer underneath them: what the model sees, how it reasons, what guardrails keep it honest. When a briefing named a former governor instead of the sitting one, I directed a fix that protected all 76 markets in one deploy. That is what AI governance looks like when it has to work in production.
Before this I was a professional photojournalist published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, Time, Le Monde, and Getty Images, covering Hurricane Maria for Anadolu Agency. Former radio talk show host during the same disaster. That editorial background is why the prompt architecture works: deciding what 76 markets show their readers is an editorial judgment problem, not a software problem.
Earlier career: I scoped and led a $21M regulatory compliance program for disaster recovery infrastructure, built from a two-sentence ask into a 38-month engagement with 21 staff and 1,200+ projects under federal environmental and historic preservation law. Before that, I ran state-level emergency operations across 67 Florida counties and led statewide community engagement and coalition-building operations. Master's degree in Applied American Politics and Policy.
News in Latin America, the US, and Europe is scattered across dozens of outlets per country. A reader in Puerto Rico or Texas who wants a fast, sourced daily briefing has to assemble it themselves every morning. Portada-Engine solves this at scale. One repo, one Vercel project, 76 live markets across three brand families: La Portada (Spanish, 19 LATAM and Caribbean markets), The StatePage (English, US national apex plus all 50 states, DC, Guam, USVI, and a PR diaspora edition), and The EnglandPage.
I wrote the editorial prompt architecture for every market. Seven focus markets get individualized briefing voices, headline impact scoring, deep source audits, newsletter delivery via Resend, and a crisis coverage system with live evidence matching (deployed for the UPR strike). The remaining 69 autopilot markets run on a 24-hour briefing cycle with deterministic categorization.
AI cost engineering: monthly Gemini spend went from a $300 broken-call spike to under $2 a month across all 76 markets, after moving categorization off AI to deterministic rules, decoupling the briefing cache, splitting API keys by region, and moving the focus markets to four scheduled daily editions. AI governance: when a briefing named a former governor instead of the sitting one, I directed a shared-engine fix that protected every market in one deploy. 2,300+ Vitest tests.
Turns fieldwork scans into a persistent, searchable, relationship-aware research archive. Claude reads the actual image (not OCR) and extracts structured metadata with per-field confidence scoring. Trust tiers: T1 (historian-verified), T2 (high-confidence unconfirmed), T3 (uncertain/flagged). Research notes become standing queries. Cross-document connection surfacing. Batch upload with shared provenance. Chicago/Turabian citation generation. Natural language search. Multilingual.
Every feature addresses a pain point from my years of firsthand archival research across eight Latin American countries. Live commercial product with Stripe payments, a free tier, and three pricing tiers. Selected for Anthropic's Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon: the concept was chosen from 20,000 applicants to build during the event.
View Live →56,779 providers searchable by natural language (Spanish, English, Spanglish). Every record carries a trust tier based on how many independent sources corroborate it. Five data pipelines: NPPES federal registry, ORCPS physician license verification, CMS Open Payments, NPPES deactivation checking, and insurer directory cross-matching across 11 insurer-network filters in five families, with 30,000+ insurer directory records matched.
Surgery-intent search filters for verified surgical capability. Insurance filtering by actual plan. Deterministic search parsing handles specialty, municipality, provider name, insurance, and exclusion queries without AI at search time.
View Live →Four briefings a day (morning, lunch, afternoon, evening), 14 stories per edition, and every headline and deck rewritten to strip clickbait and marketing language. Readable in four minutes. 55 free-access sources: US tech outlets, European coverage, research feeds (arXiv cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL), lab announcements from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and Hugging Face, independent analysts (Simon Willison, Lilian Weng, Sebastian Raschka, Latent Space, Andrej Karpathy), plus community signals from Hacker News and Reddit.
Traceable briefing themes: every summary shows the source headlines behind it so readers can verify what informed each section. Morning email subscriptions via Resend. Crawlable briefing archive. A different editorial model from Portada-Engine: depth on one vertical instead of breadth across 76 markets.
View Live →Minimalist iOS weather app using Google Gemini 2.5 Flash for plain-language weather recommendations. Collects zero personal data. Published on the Apple App Store. First shipped AI product (August 2024).
View on App Store →Context engineering architecture for AI-driven short-form video. Classified hook archetypes with structural formulas, professional voice design, time-coded script production, ethical guardrails. Production pipeline: custom GPT, ElevenLabs voice clone, AI-generated music, CapCut. Under two hours shoot time per piece.
First 15 days: 80,000+ views, 6,700+ likes, 8.4% engagement rate (2x industry average). Channels currently hibernated.
View on GitHub →Automated end-to-end tests against ffxiah.com, a production website with a 20+ year user base. 11 test areas: navigation, search, item detail, category browsing, server selection, responsive design, advanced search, comparison, error handling, authentication UI, performance baselines. Microsoft Playwright with headless browser automation.
View on GitHub →Local-first desktop app for independent artists. Analyzes the actual audio signal (FFT, beat detection, spectrum) and drives 13 visual systems from what the music is doing. Export clean 1080p MP4s for YouTube, TikTok, Reels, Shorts, feed, and square. No upload, no watermark, no account. Free. Pro 4K, PNG sequence, and Advanced Master exports coming.
Windows MSI installer shipped. macOS next.
View Live →Free Windows desktop utility. Scan-first paradigm: shows what it found before changing anything. Every high-impact action requires confirmation, creates a backup, and logs what happened. Health checks, temp cleanup, browser data cleanup across five browsers, duplicate detection, startup management. Source-available proprietary freeware.
View on GitHub →Context engineering applied to generative audio. Dark instrumental music (cyberpunk reggaeton, cinematic halftime trap, dark Latin trap) produced entirely through ElevenLabs Music using a prompt architecture developed across 15+ iterative sessions. Every rule in the production formula traces to a specific failure caught and redirected. Nine published tracks on YouTube.
View Site →Context engineering, AI-assisted development, and AI governance across six AI products on all three frontier APIs, plus two desktop applications. Wrote editorial prompt architecture for 76 news markets. Directed AI cost engineering from a $300 spike to under $2/month across all 76 markets. Directed AI governance fixes protecting all markets from a single deploy. Development tools: Codex and Claude Code daily.
Scoped and led a $21M environmental compliance program for disaster recovery infrastructure. Built from a two-sentence ask into a 38-month engagement. Led 21-person cross-functional team. Directed $1.2M subcontractor relationship. 691 environmental assessments. 1,200+ projects. Coverage spanned 16,000+ miles of transmission lines across Puerto Rico including Vieques and Culebra.
Implemented Oracle Aconex company-wide for a major electric utility. Managed 500+ software licenses. Trained 200+ employees. Embedded in the client's PMO and QA/QC department. Oracle Aconex Accredited Specialist. Also served as Microsoft 365 administrator.
Captured interactive 3D digital twins of commercial facilities using Matterport Pro LiDAR. Clients included Adidas corporate-owned retail locations and Planet Fitness locations island-wide.
Taught Mobile CSP, Robotics, Web Development, and Photography to 120+ students at UPR's laboratory high school. Assisted in teaching and grading DECEP courses certifying 60+ K-12 public school teachers in underserved communities.
Provided recommendations to senior federal officials including the Deputy Secretary of the Interior and Director of US Fish and Wildlife Service. Focus: Great American Outdoors Act and Land and Water Conservation Fund. Met with members of Congress during Latino Advocacy Week.
Photojournalist for Anadolu Agency during Hurricane Maria. Published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, Time, Le Monde, and Getty Images. Radio talk show host at WAPA Radio, the only station operating during and after the hurricane.
Guided tours, educational presentations, visitor services. Informal Visual Information Specialist: photography, social media, visual content. Concurrent National Guard service included DINFOS at Fort Meade. NPS Customer Service Award.
Statewide coalition building across Hispanic, African-American, faith-based, and civic communities. Bilingual media strategy. Led grassroots operations across Central Florida (9 of 9 county wins). Expansion into Pennsylvania and Ohio. 40% engagement increase in assigned region.
Three progressive roles in two years. Federal recovery programs across all 67 Florida counties. Deputy Incident Commander after Tropical Storm Fay. Project Manager for the Governor's Domestic Security Tabletop Exercise. Chief of Operations for Operation Haiti Relief. Trained 130+ employees on social media for emergency communications. Translated official H1N1 materials to Spanish.
Enlisted September 7, 2001. Combat deployment to Iraq (2003-2004) with the initial invasion. Hurricane Katrina relief in Mississippi (2005). Additional disaster relief during the 2004 and 2005 Florida hurricane seasons. Transferred to Puerto Rico. Served in both Army and Air Force National Guard. MOS progression from Infantry to Engineer to Public Affairs Specialist. Completed the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort Meade, MD. Honorable service. NCO.
Research focus: Puerto Rico international relations with Latin America. International archival research across El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Official researcher credential at Archivo General de la Nación, Lima, Peru.
Applied American Politics and Policy.
Language, literature, culture.
Open to remote roles in Context Engineering, AI Integration, AI Governance, and AI Evaluation. Based in San Juan, PR. Available for travel.