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A career in one frame

A map, not a timeline.

A CV hides the structure. A graph exposes it — but most graphs are software projects about the data, not arguments made with the data. This one is hand-composed. Every mark is where it is for a reason. Time flows diagonally from Bogotá to London. The present is the largest word on the page.

14 nodes8 edgeshand-placedrevised 2026-05-16
Compact view — best viewed on a larger screen.
2018–2023

The foundations.

Bogotá · Los Andes
Education
2018 — 2023

Bachelor of Science

Universidad de los Andes · Bogotá

Five years of rigorous engineering training at Universidad de los Andes. Foundations in algorithms, software architecture, distributed systems, and applied mathematics — the groundwork that everything since is built on.

  • Computer science
  • Software engineering
  • Algorithms
Thesis
2023

F1 prediction thesis

BSc thesis

Undergraduate thesis applying machine learning to Formula 1 race-outcome prediction. A rigorous exercise in custom dataset construction, feature engineering, and evaluation across a 70-year historical corpus.

  • Built and cleaned a custom dataset spanning 70+ years of Formula 1 history
  • ~93% accuracy predicting current-season race winners
  • Practical strategic simulations for pit-stop timing and tyre strategy
  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • ML
2021–2023

First contact with industry.

Bancolombia · Glamper
Role
2021 — 2022

Bancolombia

Intern Software Engineer · Medellín

Early industry experience inside one of Latin America's largest banks. Delivery discipline, cloud fundamentals, and systems thinking inside a high-stakes financial environment.

  • Cut ticket resolution time by 35% via Jira–AWS integrations and a React KPI dashboard
  • Contributed to a strategic migration from on-prem to AWS cloud services
  • Python
  • AWS
  • React
  • Backend
Role
2023

Glamper

Software Engineer · Bogotá

Fast-moving startup. Designed the core serverless infrastructure from scratch; shipped LLM-powered travel experiences before they were mainstream.

  • Designed a fully serverless AWS architecture — bookings, payments, users
  • Grew platform bookings 50%+ via an LLM travel agent generating personalised itineraries from live inventory
  • Python
  • Vue/Nuxt
  • AWS Lambda
  • Serverless
  • LLMs
2023–2024

The London turn.

Imperial · research · rigour
Education
2023 — 2024

Master of Science

Imperial College London

Postgraduate specialisation in software engineering, applied machine learning, and evaluation methodology. A formal reframing of production engineering through the lens of research-grade rigour.

  • Designed reproducible experimentation pipelines for high-performance computing environments
  • Shipped an open-source regression detection system adopted into Nektar++ CI/CD
  • Deep learning
  • ML evaluation
  • Reproducible systems
  • HPC
Thesis
2024

HPC regression detection

MSc thesis · open source

Thesis work on performance-regression detection in high-performance computing — a research problem at the intersection of deep learning, systems engineering, and reproducible science.

  • VAE-based detection flagged 96% of regressions with >1% resource impact
  • Triage time for new submissions cut to under 3 hours, inside the existing CI cluster
  • Developer debug time cut 50% via a ranked causal analysis layer
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • GitLab CI
  • HPC
  • VAE
2024 — present

The anchor.

Untap · production AI
Role
2024 — Present

Untap.

Software Engineer · London

Driving the AI feature roadmap at a private-equity-focused software platform. Architecting and shipping production ML systems that reduce analyst workload and accelerate investment decisions.

  • KPI extraction pipeline at 90% accuracy — client data ingestion time cut 80%+
  • AI condition evaluator scoring investment opportunities against client priorities
  • RAG intelligence system on BigQuery + Gemini — natural-language queries over portfolio data
  • MCP server connecting LLMs to internal tools and proprietary data sources
  • Java
  • React
  • GCP
  • BigQuery
  • Gemini
  • RAG
  • MCP
Employer project
2024 — Present

Financial Extraction

Untap · KPI pipeline

End-to-end extraction system that turns unstructured financial documents into structured data — KPIs, targets, metrics. Deployed on GCP and integrated directly into Untap's workflows.

  • 90% extraction accuracy across diverse financial document formats
  • Client data ingestion time reduced by 80%+
  • LLMs
  • Fine-tuning
  • Prompt engineering
  • Java
  • GCP
  • BigQuery
Employer project
2024 — Present

Investor Intelligence

Untap · RAG + MCP server

AI assistant integrated into Untap's platform — helps analysts query portfolio data in natural language, generates memos, surfaces intelligent insights. Built on a custom MCP server connecting LLMs to proprietary data sources.

  • Natural-language querying over portfolio data
  • Real-time, context-aware assistance integrated with internal tools
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Java
  • Backend
2025 — present

The orbit.

Side projects, shipped in the cracks
Personal project
2025

Intus

iOS · Claude API

SwiftUI iOS habit tracker with an AI coaching layer powered by the Claude API. Explores the design space between structured self-tracking and context-aware personal intelligence.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS
  • Claude API
Personal project
2025

Portfolio

this site

This website — a living experiment in interaction design, performance trade-offs, and visual storytelling. Built to the same standards as production work.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • UX
Personal project
2025

This atlas

hand-composed · bespoke

The composition you're reading. Hand-placed typographic nodes, drawn connections, no force simulation. A career told as a map, not a timeline.

  • TypeScript
  • SVG
  • Typography
  • Data design
Personal project
2025 — Present

Large Football Model

streaming + simulation

A production-grade multi-task transformer for football intelligence. Match outcomes, xG modelling, scoreline simulation, player performance, Monte Carlo scenario planning. In progress.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Streaming
  • ML
Personal project
2026

EvalLens

LLM evaluation · open source

LLM evaluation framework — systematic, reproducible, actionable. Born from first-hand experience with the limitations of ad-hoc evaluation in production AI.

  • Python
  • LLMs
  • Evaluation
  • CI/CD