Inventor, entrepreneur, builder.

I'm part of Cisco's innovation organization, where I lead the design of novel zero-trust technologies for securing autonomous AI applications. My work covers identity and access control over tools and data, as well as products that give tailored visibility into how AI accesses and uses sensitive enterprise data. I've developed patent-pending access-control mechanisms to counter what I call "scope-breaking" techniques, and new Multi-Factor Verification (MFV) methods for agentic AI — with and without a human in the loop.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science and an Electrical Engineering degree in electronics, with deep hands-on experience in security and networking earned at the largest telco in Uruguay (A.N.TEL), where I helped design, operate, and secure the country's largest network infrastructure.

Before my current role, I was part of Cisco's corporate strategy, where I learned how to turn innovation into profitable business. Prior to Cisco, I was a Computer Science professor and led a research lab at the Department of Computer Architecture, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain; and an assistant professor in both the Physics and Electrical Engineering Departments at the University of the Republic (UdelaR), Uruguay.

I live in Switzerland with my most precious asset: my wife and our three amazing children.