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 semantic-based access control to 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 Ph.D. 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.