Claude for K-12

My Philosophy

The two variables that produce successful outcomes are the right people and the right processes. There are engineers who could have coded a better site (kinda obvious), K-12 teachers and admins who know more about the day-to-day struggles, and life-long K-12 professionals who understand the policy side of things better. My strength is in my ability to be the glue, quickly assessing and enabling people to be positioned to do their best work. Most of enabling people to do their work is clean, simple processes that ensure people are never blocked by a form or approval. I'm a big believer in “just build” but understand that we cannot be *that* aggressive when dealing with an industry as critical as K-12 education, especially when many students and parents “aren't asking for it.”

I'm hesitant to call education “broken” because it's never been ideal. We've had to fit into a mold forever, I took standardized tests that are apparently useless now and replaced by something else. AI is the first time we can scale the “right” education methods for each student. The cliche of teaching a fish to climb can die out with these innovations. At the same time we need to be careful, there is still value in a standardized way of assessment and of powering through the mundane material. This is a balance we would work hard to get right by co-building the solution with educators, students, and parents.

Below I'll list some things you won't see on my resume (or just briefly touch on) but I feel highlight my commitment to education, technology, and forward progress as a society.

• •Volunteer for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
• ◦SHPE JR chair in college - STEM events for local highschool students
• ◦Noche de Ciencas Lead - Parent/Student focused event for Grade 5-8 students interested in STEM
• ◦Continued support of National Convention where I volunteer, lead workshops, and/or lead my company's recruiting efforts at the conference.
• •AI Champion within my organization, spoke at several internal bootcamps & organized the security-specific one for my team of ~400 engineers & PMs.
• ◦Led workshops on Github Copilot, Building with Agent SDKs, and eval suites for AI products.
• ◦Built several playbooks for assessing opportunities to build with AI & developing accompanying metrics.
• •New father of a 1 year old, suddenly I have turned on the school rating filter when I do my Zillow doom scrolling.