🌍 Viseu, Portugal | Originally: Guanare, Venezuela (1985)
🗺️ Venezuela 🇻🇪 → Panamá 🇵🇦 → Chile 🇨🇱 → Portugal 🇵🇹
🎓 Animal Production Engineering + Computer Engineering (UNELLEZ & URBE)
🤟 Founder of TALS — Autonomous Sign Language Translator (2011)
🏆 CORFO Capital Semilla Winner 2018 · ~USD 50,000
✈️ Represented Chile at Computex Taipei 2018 (Taiwan) via ProChile
📺 Featured on CNN Chile national television
🏭 IT Manager & Developer @ SYSteel Group (Viseu, Portugal)
🏒 Inline Hockey Player 🇻🇪 · 🇨🇱
🗣️ ES (native) · PT (fluent) · EN (professional) · IT (basic)
In 2011, I watched a deaf person struggling to communicate in a world that wasn't built for them.
I decided to build the bridge.
TALS (Traductor Autónomo de Lengua de Señas) is a real-time Autonomous Sign Language Translator using computer vision, gesture recognition ML, and embedded hardware (Raspberry Pi).
| 🗓️ Year | 🏅 Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 💡 Idea conceived after witnessing deaf person excluded from everyday conversation |
| 2017 | 🥇 Top 6 national projects in Chile — only foreign team outside the capital |
| 2017 | 🎯 Semifinalist SAP Innomarathon Chile · Selected Latinomics Leadership Summit Vienna |
| 2018 | 💰 Won CORFO Capital Semilla — 33,000,000 CLP (~USD 50,000) |
| 2018 | 🌏 Represented Chile at Computex Taipei 2018 (Taiwan) via ProChile |
| 2018 | 🎯 Semifinalist SAP Innomarathon 2018 |
| 2019 | 📺 Featured on CNN Chile in national news report |
- 🏆 2017 — Arica Smart City Award · Hackathon Arica Smart City @ WAKI Labs · w/ Darwin Ramírez · Proyecto Punto Digital
- 🥇 2019 — Open Innovation Challenge, Asociación de Industriales de Iquique · Proyecto Vertrag
- 🥇 2020 — Open Innovation Challenge · Proyecto Pro Virtual
- ™️ 2020 — Registered trademark Vertrag® (CVE 1817254)
Grouped by focus area — accessibility & AI first, then IoT, SaaS, corporate work, and consulting.
| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 🤟 TALG | Real-time LGP ↔ Portuguese sign-language translator — the TALS mission, live today | Astro · Three.js · MediaPipe |
| 🧏🏻 SurdiSol Connect | Support platform for the Deaf community in Viseu, Portugal | React · TypeScript · Vite |
| 🐈 NekoAI | Open-source AI desktop pet with a local LLM brain — 100/100/100/100 Lighthouse | Tauri · Rust · React |
| 🐃 ReproTrack | Asymmetric IoT system detecting cattle/buffalo heat via IMU + BLE + LoRaWAN | ESP32 · LoRaWAN · BLE |
| 🐾 PetConnect247 | Multi-country pet adoption SaaS — 5 countries, 3 languages | React · FastAPI · Supabase |
| 🌱 SYSGreen.pt | Biomass energy platform with multilingual ROI calculator & lead capture | React · TypeScript · Supabase |
| 🏭 SYSControl | Real-time production monitoring for SYSteel Group's cutting machines | Node.js · Socket.io · SQLite |
| 🌐 GiWebs | Studio for fast, organically-ranked sites + solidarity program for Venezuela | Astro · Cloudflare Workers · D1 |
| 🌡️ RClimatol | International open-access climatology journal, online since 2000 — full overhaul | WordPress · LaTeX · SEO |
| 🚗 MotorHouse | Engine diagnostics workshop site, Santiago de Chile | React · TypeScript · shadcn/ui |
| 🌾 Medicagro | High-performance landing page, zero heavy dependencies | Astro · Tailwind CSS · Cloudflare |
| 🚜 Sermaqui | Machinery rental & logistics site, 100% organic traffic | WordPress · Divi · Local SEO |
| 🎧 TinniTune | Tinnitus frequency-mapping & sound-therapy tool, dependency-free | Web Audio API · Vanilla JS |
| 🌐 Portfolio | This multilingual site (ES/EN/PT/IT) — full case studies for everything above | Next.js · Framer Motion · next-intl |
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