Hi! I'm Daniela.

I'm currently building in AI and healthcare at Tandem, helping people access medications more easily. 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, climbing, reading, and making the most out of NYC.

βœ‰οΈ Email me at danielavelez1201 at gmail dot com.

currently reading

  • Dune (Frank Herbert)
  • Art of Attack in Chess (Vladimir VukoviΔ‡)
  • Chip War (Chris Miller) βœ”
  • Bad Blood (John Carreyrou) βœ”
  • Shoe Dog (Phil Knight) βœ”
  • Careless People (Sarah Wynn-Williams) βœ”
  • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think (Brianna Wiest) βœ”
  • Think Like a Monk (Jay Shetty) βœ”
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (Ray Dalio) βœ”
  • Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) βœ”
  • Between Sisters (Kristin Hannah) βœ”
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder) βœ”
  • Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (John Koenig) βœ”
  • 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

  • TBPN
  • Morning Brew
  • Acquired
  • The Twenty Minute VC
  • Philosophize This!

currently loving to use

  • Superhuman
  • Comet (Perplexity)
  • Codex

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