
How Claude Helped Me Navigate a Travel Nightmare (Without Losing My Mind)
Our Belize diving trip got derailed by an emergency diversion to Amarillo, Texas. Here's how I used Claude to turn chaos into a series of informed decisions, fast.
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Our Belize diving trip got derailed by an emergency diversion to Amarillo, Texas. Here's how I used Claude to turn chaos into a series of informed decisions, fast.

Four takeaways from Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco โ rapid growth, context switching as a superpower, customization gaps, and Slack-native AI workflows.

Spoke at Stanford's Society of Latinx Engineers about breaking into industry, early career decisions, and AI tooling โ one of those Q&As where you can tell people are genuinely curious.

Presented on AI tooling and the agentic future alongside Ashwin Goel for Salesforce's Futureforce intern cohort โ sharing how Slack and Salesforce are building for what comes next.
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Mar 2026 โ Present
Part of the Agentic SDLC team within Slack DevXP, focused on transforming how software gets built by integrating AI agents across the entire software development lifecycle, from idea to production. Agentic SDLC โ DevXP โ Dev & Data โ Slack โ Salesforce.
Jun 2025 โ Feb 2026
Currently on the Sidebar Systems team, focused on building the best in class messaging platform for getting work done. Sidebar Systems โ Messaging โ Slack Core Experience โ Slack โ Salesforce.
Jan 2025 โ Jun 2025
Explored the Engineering Manager path at Slack, leading a team of three engineers on the Lists team under the Productivity pillar.
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