About

I'm a Peruvian serial entrepreneur and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. I've founded multiple venture-backed startups: AmigoCloud, a geospatial platform (Code for America, Stanford StartX); ModeWalk, a luxury e-commerce company acquired by Moda Operandi (Stanford StartX); and a stealth startup in the crypto space. My career has spanned GIS technology (Esri, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AmigoCloud), video games (Microsoft Flight Simulator at MS Game Studios), and e-commerce. I know how to build SaaS platforms from the ground up and manage engineering teams. For the past four years, I've been working in crypto, building analytics solutions for compliance programs including KYC and anti-money laundering. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote 'El Martillazo y el Huayno', an article that went viral overnight as the first document in Peru explaining the pandemic's impact. It was also the first publication of R values at regional and city levels in Lima, with open source code. I co-founded OpenCovid-Peru, a volunteer initiative that became the de facto standard for Peruvian press coverage of the pandemic. We calculated numbers at finer granularity than the government, tracked ICU bed availability at hospitals, and eventually pressured the government to adopt more open data policies. Patrick Wieghardt and I were invited to help update Peru's official death toll using a novel methodology optimized for countries with limited PCR testing, which was presented to the World Health Organization. Our work earned us a Presidential Thank You and acknowledgement from the Peruvian Congress. Earlier in my career, software I wrote at Esri in my 20s has been used by most countries for census data collection, nautical charts, and National Geographic information systems, as well as by major US agencies including the Department of Defense, NASA, NGA, and the US Forest Service.