Welcome to my page! Below I will tell you about how my interest in science started, my background as a physicist, my approach in programming and my personal interests and hobbies.

How it started

My approach to science can be resumed in one word: curiosity.

For me, it has always been an engine to search for all the answers I can. So, when classic questions such as “why is the sky scarlet red at dusk?” started to have a more profound answer as I kept studying physics, I rediscovered the joy of child-like amazement.

This feeling never stopped, and when I started getting into astrophysics, my appetite for knowledge just grew bigger. While recognizing how vast is our Universe beyond our celestial cusp, a place where majestic astronomic bodies can be observed, and where questions about unknown objects and processes persist, my joy from discovery was higher than ever.

During my bachelor’s thesis I devoted myself to the study of supermassive black holes in galaxies and cosmic dust. It was an amazing and challenging experience, where I had to get familiar with Linux and learn C++, R and Bash, which seemed very intimidating for someone who had never encountered a programming language or terminal before.

And I loved it! It was like finding a completely new kind of puzzle. Ever since then, my path in programming and data science formally started.

Data science

My thesis’ work was my first experience in data science. In it I performed numerical simulations of models of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies, which are known as active galactic nuclei. In this study, large amounts of data were reproduced from iterations on the variations of the parameters of interest, to such an extent that computational limitations were present.

Therefore, high-performing computing was an essential part of my research. This academic experience allowed me to apply and obtain a scholarship in an international school in Mexico centered on parallel and high-performance computing. This event was made by the International Center of Theoretical Physics in the facilities of the Hybrid Supercomputing Center (ABACUS).

There I deepened my knowledge regarding parallel programming’s paradigm, and I acquired the mentality of optimizing the implementation, management and administration of computational resources as a priority. This not only from the intention of preventing wasting resources, but to redirect efforts to reducing the economic and energy costs that are required by the use of this kind of machines.

My next adventure in the data science world was to obtain a position as a junior developer in data mining. There I learned Python alongside its libraries: Pandas, Numpy and Plotly, Jupyter, and Git. The process of converting data to information was notorious in this job, so besides getting familiar with new techniques for data consumption like API usage, I also got knowledgeable of interesting business concepts like key performance indicators, marketing metrics, and business analytics.

I’ve also made dashboards using Google Data Studio alongside the implementations required to measure their respective indicators and metrics. In one opportunity, I made a dashboard fed by information given by Google Analytics through Google Tag Manager. The goal of that dashboard was to visualize the different behaviors of clients with and without paid subscriptions through their log-in activity in the web application, and thus proposing a series of actions to stimulate free users to buy the product.

In my opinion, working in the technology field requires a frequent training, because it is a field in constant growth. Following that idea, I am subscribed in the Data Science career on Platzi, with the intention of maintaining my technological skills up to date. Recently, I have joined the Data Engineering Nanodegree in Udacity with the aim of specializing in this data science area.

Personal

I love gardening, and my favorite plant is the jade tree. I also enjoy to discover new music, and I’d say the best recent finding I’ve had are Purity Ring, Wintergatan, Peter Sandberg, Halou, and Eve.

I love visual expression, that’s the reason why I learned to edit videos several years ago, so from time to time I use my Sony Vegas to create personal projects. Likewise, I enjoy aesthetics in digital content, which is why I also learned to design images using simple programs like Canva and Adobe Lightroom.