Extracurricular Involvement

FSUshadow — FSU Career Center

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Competitive Job Shadow Program

August 2025 & March 2026
  • One of few FSU students selected twice for this competitive single-day job shadow program run by the FSU Career Center during academic breaks.
  • 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.
  • 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 for Fall 2026, co-leading the club-wide project alongside fellow Project Chair Sebastian Davalos.