Summer 2025 AI Product Engineering Apprenticeship

I am Daniel Diaz, an undocumented immigrant and DACA recipient from Mexico, who has worked in the tech industry for the last decade across the public and private sector. The United States and the Salinas Valley gave me knowledge and opportunity to get to where I am today and I'm ready to invest in the next generation of builders.

My experience includes shipping high-quality code for Uber and UberEats as well as leading technical and product facing teams at companies such as Lightstep (acq by ServiceNow), and SpecCheck, a Y-Combinator startup looking to bring the optical industry to the new world. Most recently, I was building AI Agents at Sierra for large enterprises.

I recently turned down an interview with Cursor, the AI assisted developer environment app making over $200M ARR, to exercise my agency. (Cursor and Sierra are both Forbes AI 50 companies with earth shattering revenue records never seen before).

I love the salad bowl of the world. Monterey County and the Salinas Valley played a huge role in my development and I’m looking to do the same now just as Andy Matsui & the Matsui family provided that opportunity for me back in 2013 with the CS-in-3 program when my journey in tech and super agency began.

We’re not just hoping to build a product. We aim to grow our venture and community to coach and mentor the next generation of elite 831 builders with real and impactful work. Let’s bridge the gap between Steinbeck Country and the tech industry for undiscovered talent.

Join us for a fun summer as we look to lay the foundation, learn and plan the seeds for responsible AI in the 831. (and beyond??)

Apply here. Applications close a week from now.