Now
This is a now page, a place to share what I'm focused on at this point in my life. Last updated: October 7, 2025
Current Work
TalkingPoints - AI Operations
Built an AI-powered MCP server that lets anyone in our organization explore our data warehouse through natural conversation with Claude—asking questions, diving deeper with follow-ups, and getting insights with full context. Currently focused on refining the user experience and driving adoption across teams.
Key metric: Reduced time-to-insight from days to minutes for program teams.
Relod - IoT Pilot
Running pilots with a few cafés and bars in San Francisco and Berkeley. With stable hardware and software in place, we're now focused on measuring product-market fit and expanding to new pilot locations.
Tacos de Datos - Content Creation
Publishing bi-weekly essays on practical AI operations and data engineering patterns. Recent topics: building your ai team in one afternoon (sub-agents), how and when to trust data vs your instincts , and making technical content accessible in Spanish.
Learning & Experimenting
Technical Deep Dives
- • MCP Servers for Data Democratization - Building Model Context Protocol servers that let non-technical stakeholders query Snowflake through natural language
- • RAG with Hybrid Search - Implementing retrieval-augmented generation patterns combining semantic and keyword search for production customer-facing agents
- • On-Device AI with Raspberry Pi - Exploring edge computing possibilities with local models for journaling devices (Amoxcalli/Kishmish projects)
- • Extended Mind Theory in Practice - Applying cognitive extension concepts to tool design, treating AI and devices as genuine extensions of human cognition rather than replacements
Side Projects
- • Kishmish/Amoxcalli - Adding emotion detection to audio journaling entries using voice analysis
- • Fieldnotes - Mapping Common Core standards to auto-suggest lesson blocks based on grade level and time of year
- • Alnilam - Building git commit analysis to track engineering momentum and suggest career progression paths
- • Rainfall - Implementing agent-powered note expansion that automatically links and develops related ideas
- • Relod - Tuning consumption rate algorithms to improve reorder forecast accuracy below 15% MAPE
Thinking About
Temporal arbitrage in AI workflows: When agents complete work in parallel timelines while you sleep, who actually did the labor? I'm fascinated by this new economy where we harvest outputs from time that technically never existed - not faster work, but work displaced into alternate temporal dimensions.
Invisible knowledge architectures: Every day millions of parent-teacher conversations, git commits, and sensor readings create vast patterns we've never been able to see. We're sitting on decades of collective intelligence about how communities actually function, trapped in formats too scattered to analyze until now. What happens When we tap into this invisible fountain of knowledge?
The anxiety inversion of AI crews: Working with multiple specialized agents doesn't just distribute tasks - it fundamentally changes the psychological experience of building. That familiar dread of "hope this doesn't break anything" transforms into confidence when you have specialists watching your blind spots. The cognitive load doesn't disappear; it redistributes.
AI colonialism and linguistic sovereignty:The homogenization of language through English-dominant LLMs isn't just a technical limitation - it's a form of cultural erasure happening in real time. What does sovereignty mean in an AI era?
Availability
Open to:
- ✓ Speaking at conferences (EN/ES) about AI Ops and data engineering
- ✓ Short-term consulting on cost optimization and evaluation frameworks
- ✓ Mentoring Spanish-speaking developers entering tech
Not available for:
- × Full-time roles requiring relocation or fixed hours
- × Pure strategy consulting without hands-on implementation
- × Projects that optimize for engagement metrics over user agency
Recent Updates
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