I am a Software Engineer at Amazon, working on the AWS ECS Fargate Dataplane.

Prior to Amazon, I worked at Impinj, a startup (at the time) that makes RFID chips. I worked on the software that tests the chips at the factory. This is where I made the jump from writing embedded software (C++, Wireless signal concepts) to Web Services (Ruby on Rail Applications backed by a MS-SQL Database) I learned about Containers here. I led the effort to break up a monolith back-end application into smaller, manageble microservices. We used Docker.

Before that I was an embedded software engineer at Motorola (Today Motorola Solutions) working on software-defined radios. I worked on the RF control layer that runs the radios for first responders (Police and Firefighters). The APX P25 Radios run on software I worked on.

During college I was an intern (Co-op Program) for IBM. I was on the team that designed chips (ASIC Design) for the big servers. The team I was on wrote Verilog and VHDL. I wrote Perl scripts that parsed specs and generated test cases. This is where I learned to use the Linux Command Line. (I’m still learning)

Before I become a softare developer I worked full time as a bank teller and part time as a Reservist in the Florida Army National Guard. Before that I was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps Infantry stationed in Camp Lejuned but deployed all over the world.

Life Story

I was born in Venezuela and moved to Florida when I was 13, I went to the Marines right after high school. In May 2001 I joined the Florida Guard and Enrolled in Florida Atlantic University. In 2002 I was lucky to marry an amazing woman. Early 2003 I got sent to Iraq, came back from that in March 2004. Late 2005 my oldest girl was born and my life was transformed. I gradudated from Florida Atlantic University in 2006 with a Bachelors’s Degree in Computer Engineering. My youngest girl was born in 2007. I got my Master’s Degree In Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Univeristy of Florida in 2011. I moved to Seattle in 2014. I have two bulldogs named Chicha and Petunia and they rule.

My personal interests, values and beliefs

  • I’m interested in philosophy, science, math, history and all things software.
  • I love to read.
  • I ski with my youngest daughter as often as I can.
  • I love a good baseball game
  • I cry at the end of good movies.
  • I prefer hard truths over comfortable lies
  • I value Liberty and Justice for all.
  • I believe Democracy is better than all the other options.
  • I am American by choice
  • Black Lives Matter