I was born to a Uruguayan dad and a Panamanian mom in Tokyo, Japan. We moved to Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá when I was two, where I was raised until I came to Berkeley. Originally I wanted to be a Chemical Engineering major and because Panamá had no ChemE program I had to look somewhere else and Cal seemed like a great place.
I had never done programming before CS 10. I fell in love with it after Dan’s lecture on abstraction and I have pursued to learn a lot. Now I know Python, HTML, CSS, Snap! (ofc), and (the best) Java.
Weirdly enough for a CS major, I cannot be in home unless necessary. I am a very outdoorsy person and I especially enjoy Photography and traveling to new and remote places, especially the ones in which I can learn and understand the struggle and problems that the underpriviledged face (especially in Latin America); all of which I plan to fix using computing.
I have a very dark sense of humor which my friends tend to enjoy (sometimes too much) and a capacity to approach strangers and live quite wild experiences due to my outgoingness.
Having a family that supports me whenever I need and being able to be born and raised in a very International and Latin American household is something I always feel grateful about.
CS 10, CS 70, EECS 16B, IEOR 135 (best course by far I’ve taken at Berkeley), Nutrisci 10, Portuguese 27, Latin American Leadership Society, working on a start-up, and working on my own projects (hopefully).