The Bank Already Emails Me Every Transaction
I never connected my accounts to a finance app. The bank emails every charge, so I parse those into local SQLite and nothing ever reaches a third party. Here's the blueprint.
Automating
San Salvador, El Salvador · MATHEMATICIAN & AI LEAD
Models are the easy part. The job is the system around them.
I'm Miguel Escalante. For fifteen years I've built mathematical models and production software across police dispatch, earthquake response, unicorn pricing, and national healthcare. Projects rarely fail over two points of AUC. They fail when you ignore the human bottleneck downstream.
Field Notes & Essays
RSSDon't Build a Second Brain
Several agents, one knowledge base. How I centralized the rules without building a second system to run them.
Systems
Four Agents and a Shared Brain
The setup before the system: who my agents are, where they live, and the one thing they all reach into.
Systems
From Verificado19s to DoctorSV — Part 2
Part 2 of 2. The eight years after Verificado19s — Globant again, OPI and Kavak, then back to public service in El Salvador.
Career
From police analytics to earthquake response — Part 1
A few honest notes on the jobs I've held, the things I got wrong, and what the work actually feels like. Part 1 of 2.
Career
Juay the Docker
An intro to Docker — containers, images, and why they end the 'works on my machine' problem.
DevOps