From processes
to intelligent systems

I started as an Industrial Engineer in Colombia — not because I had a clear destination, but because I was drawn to understanding how systems work, how processes fail, and how to fix them at the root. That instinct led me from a thesis project into a real production line, where I built control systems, reduced costs, and got promoted before graduating.

I wasn't just studying systems — I was already building them.

At 24 I was directing a team of 20, reporting to a board of shareholders, and deploying ML models in production. I earned two postgraduate credentials, achieved 80% production automation, and discovered that AI was the convergence of everything I'd been training for. Then I managed a sales team at AB InBev, proving I could drive results with technology in any context.

AI wasn't a pivot — it was a recognition. Every skill I'd built was pointing here.

I left everything on the table — a director-level role, a postgraduate in progress, and a professional network I'd spent years building — and moved to Sydney with a suitcase and a plan. I did it for two reasons I wasn't willing to compromise on: full professional English, and a setting where I could keep pushing industrial systems thinking together with applied AI—not one at the expense of the other. The next two years were full immersion: language, cultural reset, and rebuilding from zero. English was the floor; what I really took away was how to communicate with precision under pressure, keep solving when nothing feels familiar, and earn trust across cultures from scratch.

Then I made the biggest bet of my career: I moved to Australia.

Completing a Master of IT (AI) with Distinction and High Distinction results. Shipping two production AI systems — Q&A Assistant with Claude API and hybrid retrieval, and Portfolio Agent with OpenAI Agents SDK and 7 custom tools. Both live on this domain. The engineering discipline, the leadership, the cross-cultural resilience — it all converges here.

Skills & Proof

What I work with — and where I've used it