AI Safety · Platform Engineering · Social Impact

Human‑Centred AI

I care about AI safety, honest measurement, and the people downstream of both. Right now that means making sure what a system is trusted to do is what it actually does.

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15+ Years Engineering & Technical Leadership
4,000+ People Reached via Social Enterprise
Ashoka & SOCAP Fellowship & Programme Nominations
3x Accelerator Winner IMPULSA · Alterna · Booking Booster
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About

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What I'm working toward.

I came to AI safety from building and running systems, and from studying how they are designed and how their data connects to impact. What I know about how they fail, I learned while being responsible for them.

Before platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE and AI I scaled a search engine from 20 to 45 markets, and ran social enterprises in Guatemala that funded education for 525 children and reached around 4,000 people.

I'm deepening the safety side of this work and building in public to share with the community and connect.

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Research & Areas of Interest

Safety & Alignment Lab

How do you tell whether a model is safe, and who gets to decide what safe means? The second question usually settles the first, which is why I work on the evaluation methods, the governance that acts on them, and the gap in between.

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Energy Transition Lab

I want to know where machine learning is genuinely useful to the energy transition rather than just applied to it for the sake of it. Grid optimisation, demand forecasting, and planning infrastructure for a climate that is already changing.

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Creative AI Lab

What I find interesting here is what generative systems change about authorship. Less the tools that produce work, more the tools that change how the work gets made, and being honest about which one you are actually holding.

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Developer Tools & Frameworks

Most safety tooling is built inside frontier labs and stays there. I would rather build the opposite: small, legible tools that someone outside one of those labs can read, run, and argue with.

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Tools

Tools I am building for the gap between what gets evaluated and what actually runs in production.

Roadmap

The rest, in the order I plan to build them, each on a different attack surface.

In Progress

LLM Safety Eval Harness

A refusal that holds in one scaffold can fail in another, so testing a model on its own tells you less than testing the configuration it actually ships in. I want scenarios that are reproducible and shareable rather than one-off scripts: prompt injection resistance, refusal consistency, output sanitisation, instruction-following under pressure. Built on UK AISI's Inspect framework.

In Progress

ML Security Demo Harness

Most people meet ML security as a list of attack names. I would rather they could watch one work. Adversarial examples, data poisoning, model extraction and membership inference, each as a scenario that runs against any compatible model, written to be read as much as run, so someone can fork it and point it at their own system.

Planned

Agentic Safety Monitor

Agents are being handed payments, infrastructure and procurement. That makes the sequence of tool calls the thing worth watching, not the final answer, and almost nobody is watching it. A thin layer over exactly that: what was called, in what order, and what looks unlike the last thousand runs. I am building this because I run one of these in production.

Planned

RAG Security Harness

Retrieval poisoning and indirect prompt injection arrive through documents, which means the attack sits in the corpus and never passes an input filter at all. I want that tested the way functional behaviour is tested: probes per attack class, composable into a pipeline audit, running in CI beside everything else.

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Experience & Education

Experience

2025 to Present

Senior Staff Engineer & Co-Tech Lead, Agentic Engineering

The Economist

Co-lead the group's first agentic AI initiative with the Head of AI and Data Engineering. As a subsequent side project I conceived the idea, pitched and co-built an internal AI Hub launched to around 2,000 colleagues.

2023 to 2026

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform, Enablement & DevSecOps

The Economist

Led platform engineering, developer enablement and DevSecOps across the group.

2021 to 2023

Engineering Manager, Enablement, DevSecOps & SRE

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Led enablement, DevSecOps and site reliability at the EIU.

2020 to 2022

Software Engineer, Viewpoint Big Data & SRE

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Worked as a software engineer as part of the team that built a big data platform from scratch to make tens of terabytes meaningful to the people using it.

2019 to Present

Co-Founder

Urtisan Limited

Design and manufacture in Guatemala (tropical hardwood, metals, composites; CAD/CAM and CNC); run day-to-day by a GM. Key client projects such as designing, building and installing a hanging canopy for the 2,600 m² La Torre store in Guatemala City.

2016 to 2020

Head of Social Enterprise & Executive Board Member

Niños de Guatemala

Grew a portfolio of social enterprises from one to four, funding education for 525 children and reaching around 4,000 people. As primary investor liaison, cleared all VC capital and grew sustainable income to over 80% of the operating budget. Ashoka and SOCAP nominee; ALTERNA Seed Capital and IMPULSA 2018 national winner.

2011 to 2015

Emerging Markets, Growth & Data Lead

Trovit / LIFULL Connect

Grew the search engine from 20 to 45 markets and built the content collation and data underneath search. Led APAC and EMEA growth, expanding ARR by €2M a year on a €36M base through products served to global clients and work on the real-time bidding algorithms. Co-founded Trovit Talks, a monthly event bringing 200+ tech professionals together.

Education

MITx: Statistics & Data Science · Data, Economics & Development Policy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx)

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies

Harvard University

BA French & Italian Studies: Translation & Interpretation · Politics & Education

University of Warwick

Certifications

  • BlueDot: AGI Strategy
  • BlueDot: Technical AI Safety (in progress)
  • Hugging Face: AI Agents, MCP, LLM & Deep RL

Languages

  • English & Spanish: native or fluent
  • French & Italian: C2
  • Catalan: B2
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Events

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Contact

Let's build
together.

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Status

Open to AI Safety collaboration

Location

Oxfordshire, UK
Sacatepéquez, Guatemala