My Journey has led me to where I am today.
Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft, Mountain View CA, USA - Oct 2024 - Dec 2025
TBD
Senior Applied Researcher
eBay, San Jose CA, USA - Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
As a Senior Applied Researcher at eBay, I spearhead the creation of innovative solutions that leverage machine learning and massive listings data to uncover the query intent behind user searches, significantly improving the recall and relevance of our search results.
I am currently working on projects to improve related searches, recall of listings for queries with low recall & building tools to scale and accelerate experimentation.
Software Engineering Manager
LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, CA, Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
I managed and mentored a team of 13 engineers responsible for the development and maintenance of the LinkedIn Clients (EG Corpus) and Core Database tracks for LIquid, the in-memory distributed Graph database powering LinkedIn’s Economic Graph.
I orchestrated a comprehensive client acquisition strategy that achieved an increase in our client base, encompassing the seamless migration of legacy clients and the integration of new clients.
As a passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity, I also worked as an Office co-lead for Women@LinkedIn and promoted collaboration with Universities to promote Women in STEM..
Women@LI Mountain View/Sunnyvale Office Co-Lead
LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, CA, Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Along with 3 other marvelous women, I was the co-lead of Women@LinkedIn for the Mountain View and Sunnyvale offices. Women@ is an Employee Resource Group (ERG) that creates a community for women and allies at LinkedIn to empower women and help them grow in their careers.
Women@ helped me feel onboarded and welcomed on LinkedIn and became my first community after moving to the US. Along with these amazing women, we grew our community from ~50 to 275+ members and organized multiple events including the #IAmRemarkable workshop (40+ attendees), an Impostor Syndrome fireside chat (200+ attendees), and a wellness event (100+ attendees).
I also worked on re-shaping our communication channels by designing and creating monthly newsletters, and a LinkedIn Group, and promoting forums and discussions around the challenges in the workplace.
Software Development Manager
Oracle, Zapopan, Jal, MEX, Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
I managed and mentored a team of 8 engineers in Mexico responsible for the development of new features for the Oracle Spatial and Graph component.
I was the Tech Lead for the development of new features for the Oracle Spatial and Graph component including the Support for Property Graphs in Oracle Database, Property Graphs in Oracle Big Data, among others.
Performed business analysis with potential corporate clients for software enhancements resulting in building proof of concepts for a US bank, NASA, and two South American Banks. The last two resulted in closed deals.
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle, Zapopan, Jal, MEX, Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
I led and mentored a team of 3 engineers responsible for the development of new features for the Oracle Spatial and Graph component. I also grew the team in Mexico from 3 to 8 engineers.
I was the Tech Lead for the development of new features for the Oracle Spatial and Graph component including the Support for Property Graphs in Oracle Database, Property Graphs in Oracle Big Data, and RDF Knowledge Graphs in Oracle Database.
Our innovations in the Graph storage and query domain resulted in 3 filed US patents (2 granted) and showcasing our work in a diversity of international conferences in the US and Europe.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle, Zapopan, Jal, MEX, Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
I managed and mentored a team of 8 engineers responsible for the development of new features for the Oracle Spatial and Graph component.
I was a main contributor to the development of new features for Property Graphs in Oracle Big Data, and RDF Knowledge Graphs in Oracle Database and the sole lead developer for the RDF Knowledge Graphs in Oracle NoSQL Database and the Fast in-memory reasoner for Oracle NoSQL Database.
During my time as a Senior Software Engineer, I also enjoyed participating in Knowledge Sharing sessions, volunteering events, and mentoring new hires.
UX Consultant/Interface & Interaction Designer
Usaria, Puebla, Pue, MEX, Jun 2011 -Dec 2011
I worked as a UX Consultant at Usaria MX, a UX Consulting firm that focuses on transforming the way businesses interact with their customers by applying user-centered methodologies and techniques.
During my time in Usaria, I worked closely with clients in design workshops to establish specifications and technical requirements for Web applications and websites. This way, I contributed to designing Web applications, writing interface and interaction specifications, and implementing Web applications and websites using CMS, Javascript, and PHP.
Adjunct Professor
ITESM, Puebla, Pue, MEX, Aug - Dec 2010, Aug - Dec 2011
I worked as an adjunct professor for the Information Technology Department focusing on Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence.
During my tenure, I was responsible for three classes for the Bachelor's program in Information Technology: Knowledge Management (TI3010), Business Intelligence (TI3022), and Enterprise Information Systems (TI3023).
Research Assistant/Junior Researcher
Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Puebla, PUE, Mexico Aug 2006 - Dec 2009
LAFMIA Laboratory, Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, FRANCE
I worked as a research assistant researching novel approaches to integrate heterogeneous data based on their semantics. The goal of my research was to create solutions to help computers understand the semantics hidden within documents and resources and materialize the implicit knowledge that scientists have acquired from their experience in order to help them run experiments and automatically identify sources that can help them address a problem.
As part of my research, I built a solution based on Answer Sets and Logic programming (DLV^K) to create virtual spaces of resources (images, documents, databases) that automatically evolved with respect to changes to the dataspace (creation, deletion, or update of resources) and the scientists challenges.
I also designed a system infrastructure to create a Virtual Laboratory of Biomedicine (BioVLab). This solution built a Knowledge Graph from a set of public OWL ontologies in bio-informatics and uses an Inference Engine to answer biologists’ questions based on the semantics of their queries instead of only keywords.