I'm a first-generation college student and a bilingual (English/Spanish) Computer Science student at Georgia Tech, on the People and Systems & Architecture threads. I learned to navigate the world without a guide: figuring out college, financial aid, and a whole new system while teaching my parents along the way. I'm also a Gates, QuestBridge, and HSF scholar and my high school's valedictorian, but what I care about most is using what I learned the hard way to open doors for other people.

Because finding my own path was isolating, I didn't want other students in my town's Latino community to face the same hurdles. As president of my school's HoPe chapter, I organized a county-wide FAFSA Night and walked 30+ families through their financial-aid applications in both English and Spanish, shared scholarship opportunities every week, secured up to $1,500 from local businesses for educational events, and mentored younger students. The chapter doubled to 200+ members, and I now work in Georgia Tech's Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid, still helping students reach the resources that open doors.

In Fall 2025 I studied abroad at Georgia Tech-Europe in Metz, France, completing 13 credit hours while traveling to ten countries. Seeing that much of the world in one semester reshaped how I think about technology too. The best tools meet people where they are, across languages and cultures.

Computer science humbled me early. I walked into my first object-oriented programming midterm overconfident and got a 50, which forced me to admit that memorizing my way through wasn't going to work. I rebuilt how I study from the ground up: deliberate practice and working problems one at a time. I brought my last midterm up to a 90, and that approach is now how I teach myself new things, like the data engineering behind my finance pipeline.

Outside of code, I'm into graphic design, music, and anything at the intersection of technology and global community. Right now I'm looking for internships where I can build real things and keep learning from people who know more than I do.