I was ten when my father first sat me down in front of a computer. I didn't know it then, but that afternoon would eventually put me on planes to Austria, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, and Australia — chasing robots. RoboCup turned a child's curiosity into a career: it taught me engineering, but it also taught me how people from completely different countries build something together. That lesson — that the best work happens across borders and disciplines — has shaped everything I've done since, in finance and in education alike.
My 14-year journey at J.P. Morgan
I've spent 14+ years at J.P. Morgan, and the hardest, best decision of that stretch was leaving. After a decade building and leading technology for the Onshore Private Bank in Mexico City, I moved to New York — a new country, a new market, and a team that didn't know me yet. I had to earn trust from scratch, and learning to lead across cultures and time zones changed how I work.
Today I lead data-platform strategy and delivery for the International Private Bank across global engineering centers, and I advise Executive Directors on where the technology should go over the next several years. The thread through all of it is the same: I'd rather make a hard system simple for the people who depend on it than show off how complex it is. Most recently I built a responsible AI-adoption framework for the Brokerage platform — governance that lets engineers move fast without creating risk — drawing on what I learned in MIT xPRO's AI Strategy & Leadership program.
Dedicating 16 years to RoboCup and STEAM education
For 16 years, I've had the honor of dedicating myself to advancing robotics and AI through the RoboCup Federation. My journey began as an enthusiastic participant—a RoboCupJunior competitor—and what makes my path unique is that I am the first Trustee in RoboCup's history to have started at that entry level and subsequently held every available role in the organization: technical committee member, organizing committee chair, general chair of major international events, executive committee member, and now Trustee Board Member. That arc, spanning 14+ years of uninterrupted service, drives my belief that the deepest leadership comes from knowing an organization at every level of its complexity. As the first co-chair of RoboCup Americas, I'm leading efforts to expand RoboCup's reach across the Americas, following the successful models of the long-standing RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) and European Championships. This initiative represents a pivotal moment in bringing world-class robotics competitions and STEAM education to communities throughout North, Central, and South America.
What I'm most proud of is knowing that my efforts have inspired over 25,000 students from 45+ countries annually. I've worked to create an inclusive environment where young minds can explore robotics and STEAM, developing innovation, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership skills through hands-on robot building and programming. From soccer-playing robots to disaster-rescue simulations, I believe these competitions do more than inspire—they transform lives and prepare the next generation for the challenges of tomorrow. Our vision of developing fully autonomous humanoid robots capable of competing against human soccer champions by 2050 drives me every day.
One example of how I approach every domain I enter: as a volunteer, I rebuilt the entire event registration infrastructure for the RoboCup World Championship using Cvent — designing a five-product architecture extended by a custom automation layer that processes visa invitation letters, enforces youth compliance for 800+ Junior participants, and handles payments across 45+ countries with zero errors. The result was a 95%+ drop in abandoned registrations, elimination of $100K+ in annual payment leakage, and an all-time revenue record of $820K+ — architected and developed solely by me and run by a two-person volunteer team, at zero additional platform cost. In July 2026, this work was recognized as a finalist for the Cvent Excellence Awards (Power of the Platform: Flagship Event), competing alongside GBTA, SAS Institute, and Workhuman — organizations with dedicated, enterprise-funded event teams. That contrast is something I carry everywhere: whatever the domain, I bring the same engineering discipline and hold myself to the same standard of excellence.
A lifelong commitment to learning
My academic journey has been as deliberate as my career progression — each credential chosen to address a specific gap between where I was and where I was going.
I began at Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, graduating Cum Laude in Software Engineering & Information Technologies through the Vértice Anáhuac Excellence Program — an elite academic track for top-ranking students — with an exchange semester at the University of Wisconsin. That foundation gave me the engineering rigour that has powered every role since.
In 2021, I completed the Diplomado en Inteligencia Artificial at Universidad Anáhuac Online — a graduate-level diploma focused on practical AI implementation in Python, covering cognitive systems, machine learning, neural networks, data science, and AI applied to banking and fintech environments. An independent, industry-oriented credential that deepened my technical AI fluency at a time when AI was becoming central to my JPMorgan work.
In 2023, I earned a Master's Degree with Distinction from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) in Information Technology & Management — Cum Laude. My thesis, "Effects and Exploitation of Data Analytics, AI & ML on Second-Tier Bank Value Creation," explored how data and AI technologies transform competitive positioning in banking. I also completed an exchange at Vanderbilt University in Innovation Strategy, Leading Teams, and Change & Culture.
Most recently, in June 2026, I completed the MIT xPRO AI Strategy & Leadership program — a 12-week program led by MIT Sloan and MIT CSAIL faculty, signed by Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Vice Provost for Open Learning. I completed it with 100%, earned 2× Exemplary Badges — the highest distinction in the program — and 6 Continuing Education Units. My capstone, The Context Gap, designed a governed AI adoption framework for JPMorgan's Brokerage platform and was cited by Program Leader Anjali Samani as "the strongest data-ethics thinking in the plan… operationally credible work."
My leadership philosophy
I learned the most about leadership not in a boardroom but at a registration desk. When I rebuilt the RoboCup World Championship's registration system, I could have optimized for a flashy demo; instead I optimized for the volunteer who would run it after me and the family trying to register a child from another continent. That's my approach everywhere: move fast, but never at the expense of the people downstream — the engineer who inherits the code, the stakeholder who has to trust the number, the student who just wants a fair shot. Leadership, to me, is building things that work when I'm not in the room.
Inspiring the next generation
None of this was a solo effort. I've been lucky to work across cultures, lead teams who taught me as much as I taught them, and watch what STEAM education does for a kid who didn't think technology was for them. That's the work that matters most to me now: opening the door I was lucky enough to walk through, especially for students in regions the robotics world too often overlooks.
Thirty years on from that afternoon at my father's computer, I'm still chasing the same thing that hooked me at ten — the moment a hard problem finally clicks. If you're chasing yours, in fintech, AI, or global education, I'd love to hear about it. (Tacos optional, but encouraged.)
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