•Selected for competitive externship programs run by the FSU Career Center, developing professional competencies in Project Management, Software Development, and Manufacturing.
•Spring 2026 — placed at RF-SMART, a globally operating warehouse management software company (US, UK, Australia); met with CEO and cross-functional leadership across software dev, PM, IT, and data engineering; observed mobile/web development, barcode/machine programming, and on-prem/hybrid/cloud database deployments.
•Spring 2026 — placed at Danfoss Turbocor, a manufacturer of oil-free compressors; observed manufacturing and engineering operations and cross-functional coordination on the production floor.
•Fall 2025 — placed at Paul Consulting Group, a healthcare IT consultancy; observed Product Owner and Software Developer roles in an Agile Sprint environment and end-to-end healthcare software workflows under strict compliance constraints.
AWS AI Maker Challenge
Lead Developer
February 2026 - March 2026
•Served as technical lead for Funding Forge, an AI-powered grant discovery platform; architected a serverless multi-agent system using AWS Strands Agents SDK with an orchestrator routing to sub-agents for CV parsing, grant retrieval, and collaborator matching.
•Integrated Amazon Bedrock (Claude Sonnet for proposal drafting, Claude Haiku for lightweight tasks) and Bedrock Knowledge Bases with OpenSearch Serverless for semantic vector search.
•Built full-stack implementation across React/TypeScript frontend, Express.js + PostgreSQL backend, and FastAPI microservice layer; delivered a live prototype within a single 48-hour sprint.
•Won 1st place among 12 teams, judged by AWS Senior Solutions Architects and FSU research, ITS, and library leadership.
•Featured in FSU ITS's Lunch & Learn: FSU AI Maker Challenge Winners showcase as a member of the winning team, The Agentic Avengers.
J&J Technology Awareness Program - Cohort 2
Lead Developer — Pulse Break
January 2026 – April 2026
•Served as lead engineer across a 4-person cross-functional team, translating design concepts and SME feedback into all production-ready screens and app architecture across a 6-sprint program.
•Engineered an in-app box breathing animation without third-party redirects; designed full app architecture, live demo, and executive pitch with research-backed stress framing (UKG, Seramount, Wellhub, AIS).
•Integrated UX color palette and landing screen concepts from team forks into a cohesive main branch, delivering screens for stress check-in, tiered break interventions, guided reflection, and return-to-work summary.
•Recognized by J&J Vision VP Chief Digital Officer Mark Gaynor and IT Director Yiannis Zachariou as the strongest technical solution among all TAP Cohort 2 teams.
ColorStack
Fellow
August 2025 - Present
•Founding member of FSU's inaugural ColorStack chapter (Fall 2025); attended launch event and all chapter events throughout the founding semester, building relationships with full e-board.
•Member of ColorStack Nationals; actively grows chapter reach by recruiting peers and directing prospective members to ColorStack FSU and ColorStack Nationals programming.
SLANG FSU
Member
August 2025 - Present
•Facilitated weekly Spanish conversation tables averaging 30 attendees per session, leading engaging discussions to help non-native speakers practice conversational Spanish.
•Shared firsthand knowledge of Panamanian culture and regional Spanish dialect, providing students with authentic cross-cultural language exposure beyond standard classroom instruction.
ACM @ FSU
Member
August 2024 - Present
•Competed in Spring 2026 ACM Programming Contest; attended General Body Meetings and WICS workshops in support of women in computing initiatives.
•Appointed Project Chair for the AWS Cloud Club under ACM @ FSU starting Fall 2026, co-leading Matchob — a browser extension that tailors resumes using evidence from a candidate's own work history rather than AI-generated filler — and splitting the club's first real production build across a growing contributor base.