About
Based in Bogotá, Colombia. I studied economics at Universidad de Los Andes (cum laude) and work on biosecurity, AI uplift, AI safety, and EA community building.
I'm the technical co-founder of Cliver, and have worked on AI policy, ML research, and education—including leading several ML and AI safety bootcamps throughout Latin America.
Featured project
Cliver
An open-source customer verification tool for DNA synthesis providers. Uses LLMs and public databases to automate background checks on researchers ordering nucleic acids.
Paper: Evaluating AI-Assisted Customer Verification for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Screening. AI matched or outperformed human reviewers with biosecurity expertise at a tenth of the cost.
Experience
Program consultant — LEEP
Market research and LLM prototyping for lead poisoning elimination interventions.
Head teacher — ML4Good
Led several ML and AI safety bootcamps throughout Latin America; recruited teaching and operations teams.
AI policy officer — Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales
Drafted recommendations for the EU AI Act's Code of Practice; authored proposals for Europe's supercomputing initiative.
Research fellow — Swiss Existential Risk Initiative
Investigated feature detection techniques for neural networks, building on Anthropic's interpretability research.
Co-founder — Effective Altruism Uniandes
Started a university community around high-impact careers and cause prioritization (still running!).