Beyond work
I am generally mellow and happiest around people who communicate directly. Underneath that, I am competitive, curious, and disciplined enough to turn almost anything into a long-running experiment.
The route so far
Moving that often never felt like a dramatic reinvention. It was mostly exciting: new routines, new people, and another place to learn how to feel at home.
Community
At IE University, I founded the Dominican Republic Club and served as its president. Our flagship event became the university's largest student-led diversity event, drawing more than 500 attendees and bringing people together through Dominican culture—including a salsa and bachata class.
The constants
The gym, chess, and markets reward different versions of the same instinct: form a theory, test it, and try not to confuse confidence with evidence.
I train for hypertrophy, mostly by feel. I like reading the studies—partly so I know exactly what I am choosing to ignore.
I have played since childhood and only play ten-minute games. I hover around 1400 and peaked near 1700—usually until an opening feels too familiar, at which point I change it and donate rating points to the experiment.
I actively follow and invest in stocks—mostly technology—with some cryptocurrency on the side. I like thesis formation, statistical validation, and testing what would prove an idea wrong.
Peer-reviewed by trust me bro
A personal blend of range of motion, stretch, isolation, stability, and whether the movement requires wandering around the gym.
How I tend to work
A recurring piece of feedback from people I have worked with is that I am easy to work with and pleasant to be around.
I do not tend to bring panic into the room when a project gets messy.
I would rather surface a concern and hear another perspective than let something quietly become a problem.
If the argument is good, I am happy to drop my first answer and use the better one.
Being ambitious about the outcome does not require making the process miserable.
Why AI
Contributing to AI feels like a chance to help carry humanity’s work forward.
None of us begins from zero. We inherit medicine, science, infrastructure, and ideas from people who spent their lives pushing the boundary a little further. Their work quietly shapes what the rest of us are able to do.
I see AI as the next major step in that chain. We do not know exactly where it leads, but being born while it is still taking shape feels like a privilege—and contributing to it is one way to pay that inheritance forward.
Why cable laterals win: range of motion, stretch, and isolation.
Why walking movements lose: I am not walking around the gym.
Why leg extensions are S+: you sit there and go at it.