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Slack and Anthropic teamed up for a full day of keynotes, workshops, and lightning talks on AI tooling at Salesforce Tower, including giving two of our interns the mic.
Spoke at the Latino AI Summit on making AI tools accessible to everyone (no ML background required, just curiosity) and opened up free tickets for my network.
A week of conversations with Elastic, Warp, PlanetScale, OpenAI, Sentry, LangChain, and Together AI about observability and agentic lifecycle tooling, and how much of it runs through Slack.
Got quoted talking about non-engineers shipping code at Slack: a trend I described as 'a roller coaster: really fun, a little scary, but it's happening.'
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.
Joined a panel on 'Leadership Without Permission' at Futura Fest, hosted by the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley: a room full of Latinas who aren't waiting to be invited anymore.
Four takeaways from Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco — 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 — 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 — sharing how Slack and Salesforce are building for what comes next.
Contributed to Gregor Ojstersek's Engineering Leadership newsletter — one of 15 engineers sharing how we're actually using AI in our day-to-day workflows.
Slack completely redesigned its notification system to address user overwhelm, migrating from four conflicting preference models to a unified system with three clear options. This architectural overhaul separated notification content from delivery method, giving users independent control over what activities trigger notifications and which devices receive push alerts.
Hosted a virtual AMA on Leland for Software Engineering Recruiting Week, sharing candid insights on what interviewers actually look for, what raises red flags, and how hiring decisions are really made.
Shipped sidebar improvements to Slack including channel indentation, smart breakpoints, consistent padding, and default section icons — a thoughtful glow-up that improves usability without disrupting familiarity.
AI tools have me in a new flow state—Idea → prompt → output → refine → ship. It’s fun, addictive, and changing how I build.
Attended The Pragmatic Engineer Summit hosted by Gergely Orosz and Statsig — key takeaway: AI adoption is high, but real organizational impact is still the hard part.
Joined a SHPE x Slack panel at Salesforce to talk beyond job titles — about identity, momentum, and what it means to keep going as Latinos in tech during a challenging moment for our community.
2025 brought growth, humility, and clarity. As I look toward 2026, I’m choosing focus, community, and a deep commitment to leveling up.
Shipped a new Customize Notifications modal for Slack that lets users visualize and personalize channel notifications — high-impact, highly collaborative work that affects millions of Slack users daily.
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