There's always room to grow.

For a long time, I chased fullness. I wanted everything complete, maxed out, done. Slowly, life taught me that fullness was never the point, not because I stopped chasing growth or stopped pushing the bar, but because I kept learning.The more you learn, the more you know there's so much more to be learned.

The part that took me longer to understand is that raising the bar can't come from feeling like you're not enough. That version is toxic, and instead of pushing you, it will hold you still. So I learned to praise myself for how far I'd come, and to nourish the part of me that's genuinely excited about the growth still ahead. It's a good thing to know you're on the right path and that there's still more in front of you. You can be proud and hungry at the same time.

The same is true of everything I build. There's no finish line in product; there's always a way to make it better. The skill isn't reaching “done”, it's celebrating the team, reading the priorities honestly, choosing the right next step, and acting on it, because you're never quite finished. And that, too, is a good thing.

I learned how to swim when I was three, and have been racing competitively since I was eight. Swimming helped raise the woman I am today. The early alarms, the pool tiles, the thousands of meters nobody sees, as well as the victories, the travels, and the feeling of always being able to do more, even when you just reached your best time. It taught me discipline, how to lose, how to win, how to come back, and a hunger for more that never really switches off.

In the US, I swam at the NCAA Division I level and captained my team. But I knew an athlete's career is short, and I wanted to find my passion outside the pool deck. I'd always done well in school, but I'd never truly made it a priority because swimming came first. Then, when I moved across the world for college, it clicked: what if I did? I loved the water, but I didn't want to be an athlete forever, and the highest ROI wasn't another tenth of a second… it was knowledge.

I had never written a line of code before college, and I moved to the US at 18 without speaking English. After 4 years, I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Fordham, then earned two master's degrees: an M.S. in Data Science and an M.A. in Quantitative Economics, all three summa cum laude. While pursuing my degrees, I kept swimming, became fluent in English and improved my Spanish, published research in human-computer interaction and data mining, and threw myself into projects, internships, and new interests along the way. Those degrees matter to me less as credentials than as proof of a bet on myself: that curiosity, taken seriously, compounds.

Today, I build at the intersection of data, product, and AI. I'm a co-founder & CTO of e.closet, a sustainable fashion rental marketplace we've scaled to 11K+ users and $100K+ in GMV. At InstaLILY AI, I work as a Product & Growth Associate, building systems that make AI deployments measurable, scalable, and actionable across client workstreams. My favorite work turns human problems into systems people actually use: clean, honest, and built with intent.

Beyond my work, I strive to be a good person. I am honest, true to my values, reliable, positive, joyful, and kind. To me, that matters as much as anything I can build. And like everything I build, who I am isn't finished either. There's always room to grow, and I'd rather meet that growth the way I've learned to meet everything else: proud of how far I've come, and excited for what's still ahead.

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me. Now it's your turn. Reach out and tell me who you are and what you're building. :)