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. Even though I am a CS major, 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 English, Spanish and French (ba dum tss). I also know Python, C, C++, Hack and PHP, HTML, CSS, Snap!, and Java.
I like taking pictures. I travel to wild places with very packed schedules to capture as much as I can. I pair photography with travelling. This year I am going to Cuba and to Panamá (home). I also hope to revisit México (Oaxaca, Chiapas, and/or DF) and Argentina (Patagonia).
I can become friends with almost anyone. I’m also always on the right place at the right time. I can also fall asleep in my sleep (pun not intended). But for real, I can sleep anywhere, no matter the surface or the loudness of the place. On my most notorious time I fell asleep, I fell asleep on two parties in the same day.
I spent the last four days of 2018 in four different countries.
CS 10, CS 375 (teaching methods for CS), CS 268 (Graduate Computer Networking), CS 161 (Computer Security) and Philosophy 140B (Intermediate Logic). Also, answering any questions you might have or talking about college, CS, being raised in a multicultural background, life, or just anything that matters to you.