Hi! I'm Daniela.

I'm currently building something new in fintech risk and compliance to make it easier for banks to onboard customers, with the end goal of making financial services more accessible. Previously, I worked as one of 3-5 engineers at Alza, building a neobank for Latin Americans living in the US.

I studied CS at MIT while building side projects and supporting student founders on campus through Pear VC and StartLabs. In my free time I enjoy playing piano, reading, and exploring NYC with friends :)

    currently reading:

  • Art of Attack in Chess (Vladimir VukoviΔ‡)
  • Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (John Koenig)
  • Morning Brew
  • Redesigning the American Dream (Dolores Hayden) βœ”
  • The Secret History (Donna Tartt) βœ”
  • Walkable City (Jeff Speck) βœ”
  • The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) βœ”
  • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Steven Pinker) βœ”
  • Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller) βœ”
  • The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami) βœ”
  • The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles) βœ”
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie) βœ”
  • Atomic Habits (James Clear) βœ”
  • The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin) βœ”
  • A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf) βœ”
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs) βœ”
  • On Palestine (Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappΓ©) βœ”
  • A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) βœ”
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr) βœ”
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig) βœ”
  • Uncanny Valley (Anna Wiener) βœ”
  • Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami) βœ”
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez) βœ”
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari) βœ”
  • All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) βœ”
  • Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) βœ”
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel with Blake Masters) βœ”
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox) βœ”
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) βœ”
  • Crying in H-Mart (Michelle Zauner) βœ”
  • Goodbye, Again (Jonny Sun) βœ”

    currently listening:

  • On the Other Side
  • Your Undivided Attention
  • The Twenty Minute VC
  • Philosophize This!

    currently loving to use:

  • Superhuman
  • Cron
  • Notion
  • Clay

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