My professional journey

Corporación Universidad Americana · Barranquilla, Colombia

• Partially funded by the Becas Inspira scholarship, Gobernación del Atlántico.

Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR) · La Rioja, Spain (Remote)

• Areas: ML, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Generative AI, RAG, Agentic Systems.
• Thesis: Study support system using RAG, LLMs, and unsupervised student profiling in higher education.
• All coursework approved and thesis accepted; defense scheduled for September 2026.

Universidad Libre · Barranquilla, Colombia

• GPA: 4.19 / 5.0
• Areas: Software Development, IT Infrastructure, Databases, Algorithms, DevOps.

Sinergia Consulting Group S.A.S. · Barranquilla, Colombia (Hybrid)

• Led the design and implementation of generative and agentic AI solutions for digital transformation.
• Directed applied research in AI governance and AI literacy training for university researchers.
• Drafted technical proposals and collaborated with institutions on science, technology, and innovation projects.

Kodland Pte. Ltd. · Singapore (Remote)

• Designed curriculum and taught programming, algorithms, and intro to AI to over 300 students across Latin America, Spain, and the United States.
• Delivered classes in English and Spanish, adapting progression to each age group (ages 6–17).

Galeano, Li, Lei & Villegas, CPA, LLC (G&V Colombia) · Barranquilla, Colombia (Hybrid)

• Designed AI automation systems using Power Platform, N8N, LLM-based agents, and RAG architectures.
• Integrated OpenAI and Gemini APIs with cloud services for 100+ end users.

Master's Thesis · UNIR · Pasto, Colombia

• Academic assistant integrated into the platform of Escuela Normal Superior de Pasto.
• Combines RAG over official curricular material with multimodal evaluation of photographed solutions.
• Student profiling via HDBSCAN (K-Means fallback) feeding personalized practice and teacher analytics.
• SUS usability score of 91.6 in validation with 14 real students.

CTW Cartagena 2026 · GDG Cartagena · Cartagena, Colombia

• Tool that validates social program proposals against a live corpus of citizen voices from Cartagena.
• RAG with Supabase pgvector + Voyage embeddings; thematic clustering via BERTopic (UMAP + HDBSCAN).
• Generative LLM (Gemma 4 12B / Claude Haiku) for automatic labeling and responses with literal corpus citations.

Independent research project · Colombia

• Production system that maps Colombian regional dialect and informal medical language to SNOMED CT clinical terminology.
• Ongoing validation and refinement in collaboration with doctors across multiple Colombian regions.

Universidad Libre · Banco de Alimentos de Barranquilla · Barranquilla, Colombia

• Led design and development of the inventory management system for the Barranquilla Food Bank.
• Presented at ENISI–RedCOLSI XXVI (Cartagena, Dec. 2023); awarded Best Project nationally.

Gobernación del Atlántico

• Competitive regional scholarship for the Information Security Specialization.

German Academic Exchange Service · Germany

• Competitive scholarship for academic visits to German universities.

RedCOLSI XXVI · Cartagena, Colombia

• National recognition for the SOMIBA project.

Alcaldía de Puerto Colombia

• Merit-based scholarship; funded undergraduate studies in Systems Engineering.

Ministerio de Educación Nacional

• National competitive scholarship awarded to the top 0.5% of Pruebas Saber 11 scorers. Covered full tuition.