Adventus

Thoughts on engineering, building, and figuring things out.


Mar 19, 2026

Juan, How to Survive the RC Year (Part 2)

Welcome back to the guide. If you haven’t read Part 1, go check that out first. This part covers START Week, academics, the club fair, and the I-Lab.
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Dec 27, 2025

TableIQ - Hiring for Survival

Hiring is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually have to do it. When you’re building a startup and every dollar counts, every hire feels existential. We learned that lesson the hard way this fall.
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Nov 2, 2025

Juan, How to Survive the RC Year (Part 1)

This guide is designed to pack lots of learnings that I am uncovering as I go through the RC experience at HBS. Be warned, it’s crazy… But it’s also the most fun and incredible experience I’ve ever gone through.
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Oct 20, 2025

TableIQ - First Revenue

Today we received our first dollar of revenue ever for TableIQ! 🚀 This is a moment I never expected to arrive so early, and it feels surreal to even be writing these words.
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Jun 25, 2025

Chainguard - De-Risking Open Source Adoption

Software companies universally rely on open-source software to service as foundational building blocks for their products. This approach accelerates the pace of development and allows companies to leverage battle-tested solutions to solved problems in software. However, the reality is that...
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Mar 28, 2022

Last First Day of School

Today is officially my last first day of school! Well of school at UCLA anyway. Starting my spring quarter at UCLA as a senior today seems unreal because the last four years have gone by in the blink of an...
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Dec 6, 2020

Reflecing on Cisco

Welcome to Cisco! My three-month internship at Cisco concluded a couple of months ago and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my experience there. For me, work has been a source of great enjoyment and learning, even...
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Jul 18, 2020

Nine to Five

This is really not where I saw this blog post going when I sat down to put my thoughts on a page. I was going to reflect on my time thus far at Cisco and discuss my goals for the...
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Apr 21, 2020

Corona Virus Pandemic

Over 5 weeks have passed since UCLA transitioned to remote learning due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). This is an unprecedented world crisis in a number of ways, and boy am I shocked at how much things have changed in a...
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Feb 28, 2020

Path to Entrepreneurship?

Since starting college, I’ve been asked what I want to do over my career more times than I can count. I’ve developed a default answer that involves buzz words like R&D and next-gen technologies. Lately, though, my thoughts have been...
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Jan 23, 2020

Finding a Home

2020. Wow I can’t believe we are into a new decade! The last year and a half at college has absolutely flown by and it shocks me that I am a sophomore already. I know I haven’t made a post...
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Nov 29, 2019

The Value of Data… Acquisition Systems

As of this month, the long-anticipated data acquisition has finally been put in action! A lot of my spare time at college is devoted to Super Mileage Vehicle (SMV), an organization trying to build the most efficient electric vehicle ever...
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Oct 20, 2019

Being Busy

I read a memorable article last week about our modern obsession with being busy all the time. At university, it certainly feels like everyone is racing against each other to secure the best jobs, internships, and projects. So apparently the...
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Sep 7, 2019

The Written Word

When I was in elementary school I remember jumping at the opportunity to raid the local library for a stack of books. It was a proud day when I graduated from the kids section to the young adult section! But...
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Aug 17, 2019

Life as an Adult

Until this summer I guess I never really had a good idea of what being an adult was like. Adulthood was always a goal that would come later after college or even after marriage. But for the first time in...
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Jul 21, 2019

Introducing Adventus

Welcome to the innaugural post on my blog! This is something that I have been interested in starting for a long time and I am proud to say it has finally arrived. I wanted to have a space of my...
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