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Work Experience

• R&D Lead, DevOps and Founding Engineer, Pendium Health

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Architected and deployed HIPAA-compliant infrastructure and AI systems for healthcare startups.

  • Built backend and RAG systems for HippoAI, later acquired by Arya Health.

  • Developed clinical RAG systems boosting retrieval accuracy by 40% using Chain of Abstraction and LlamaIndex.

  • Built auto-scaled FastAPI streaming architecture supporting 2k+ daily requests with <200ms latency.

  • Led cloud migration to Dockerized microservices on AWS (EC2, ECR, ELB) with GitHub Actions CI/CD.

  • Reduced deployment downtime by 90% and accelerated release cycles from 12 hours to 10 minutes.

• Enterprise Doctor, Cooper Standard

  Jun, 2025 - Jun, 20261 year 1 month

  Provided primary and emergency medical care for an enterprise workforce, with occupational health evaluations and secure clinical reporting.

  • Performed pre-employment, periodic, and exit occupational health evaluations.

  • Managed chronic disease follow-up, absenteeism, ergonomic risk assessments, and workplace health recommendations.

  • Led health promotion campaigns and maintained secure digital medical records and reports.

• Doctor of Medicine, CCSS Costa Rica

  Jan, 2024 - Dec, 20241 year

  Provided comprehensive medical care in high-pressure hospital and outpatient settings.

  • Managed chronic diseases and emergencies in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Nephrology.

  • Performed surgical preparations and assist duties in Urology and General Surgery.

  • Delivered pediatric emergency care and high-risk prenatal care.

  • Applied clinical experience to identify gaps in EMR workflows and medical data systems.

Projects Experience

• Glia, Healthcare AI

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Clinical decision support software for Costa Rican care teams, combining CCSS context, global evidence, clinical RAG retrieval, and traceable answers.

  • Deployed Glia to production, now serving users.

  • Building Glia toward clinical pilots and strategic integration partnerships.

  • Built as a follow-on to HippoAI, with a stronger focus on Costa Rican source coverage, traceability, and clinician review.

  • Built the public product and landing experience at glia.cr with Next.js, branded email workflows, and SEO pages for clinical decision support.

  • Built ingestion for CCSS, BINASSS, PGR, INS, CENDEISSS, CONASIDA, and Ministerio de Salud sources using MongoDB tracking and Google Cloud storage.

  • Implemented hybrid retrieval, reranking, async evidence extraction, source previews, and PDF citation validation for clinician review.

  • Maintained staging and production QA scripts for streaming answers, source rendering, and citation checks.

• Bicura, Healthcare Technology Consulting

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Electronic Medical Records system with ICD-11 integration and FHIR-aligned data structures, deployed at Santa Monica Clinic in Cartago, Costa Rica.

  • Built a full EMR system from scratch with clinical workflow integration, including calendar and scheduling modules, vital signs tracking, medication history, dispatch workflows, and prescription tracking.

  • Developing AI-enabled appointment coordination and RAG-based clinical decision support.

  • Implemented role-aware clinical workflows, secure patient data handling, and scalable deployment practices.

• parallel-codex, Open Source

  Jun, 2024 - Present

  Multi-agent coding system with MCP server implementation and git worktree management.

  • Published production package on PyPI.

  • Implemented Model Context Protocol server architecture and git worktree orchestration for parallel development.

  • Built Textual TUI workflows with live observability for local development.

• Content Automation, Open Source

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Python workflow for turning short-form video transcripts into ready-to-post written content.

  • Automated transcription and post drafting workflows for repurposing TikTok content into social copy.

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