It was a parser mystery: you typed questions until the clues added up. That little game got me hooked on building things people could interact with.
I’m Miguel, from Panama and now in Austin. I’m a husband, father, and coder at heart. I’m a Senior Manager at AWS, and I experiment with AI and robotics on a farm in Panama. In both places, I’m still asking what people actually need.
My first PC game was a parser mystery. You typed questions, followed clues, and worked toward the answer. I was learning how to make something another person could explore.
HP Support Assistant put software I helped build on millions of machines.
As a lead developer on HP Support Assistant, I worked with a team building a tool to help people keep their computers running and find support. HP still offers it today.
At J.P. Morgan Chase, Halliburton, and Bray, I worked across banking, industrial monitoring, and business analytics.
I built BI programs for the investment bank’s R&D division.
At Halliburton, I worked on industrial monitoring software, including FiberView, and designed systems for desktop, web, and mobile.
I led business intelligence, analytics, and IoT initiatives to change how employees worked.
At AWS, I lead teams helping customers build AI models and technology for their businesses. I like connecting what a model can do with what the people using it actually need.
Before AWS, I led privacy consent engineering for Amazon retail sites and subsidiaries.
Starting with coffee at Oro Verde in Panama.
At Oro Verde Coffee in Coclé, I’m testing what AI and robotics can do on a working farm. I’m doing that alongside people who know the crop, the weather, and the land. Their experience tells us which problems are worth solving.
Coffee is the starting point. I want to build tools that help farms make better decisions while keeping growers’ knowledge at the center of the work.
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Research projects and experiments from earlier years.
A GPS-based system for tracking trauma patients, from my research work at UCCS.
An early sensor hardware experiment for bringing data from the field into software.
A new mystery in the spirit of that first game, set against the real history of the Panama Canal.
The SS Ancon is making the Canal’s first official transit. You watch it rise above the sea. Your editor’s map says a ship should cross at sea level. How does it get over the Continental Divide?
The chamber gates close behind the Ancon. Water begins to rise. Mateo, Inés, and Amara are nearby. The editor needs your explanation before the ship reaches the Pacific.
I’ve always been curious about how things work and how we can make them better. I’m especially interested in how people can use AI to solve real problems and create better business outcomes.
I often find myself between people building technology and people using it. At AWS, that means customers and engineers. On the farm, it means listening to growers who have worked that land for generations. I try to keep both sides in the same conversation.
“The future is about people and what we choose to build with technology.”