Cesar Monagas Romero
Deferred MBA Admit | Craft Winning Applications with a Haas Insider
Studied at McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)
Works at Visa
Available Monday at 3:00 PM UTC
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Cesar's Offerings
Custom hourly · $100/hr
Get help with Application Strategy, Essays, and .
Cesar also coaches for AI for Product Development, Build with AI, and IB Exams. View all.
Cesar’s MBA Qualifications
Welcome to my profile! As an Accelerated Access Admit to the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, I bring firsthand experience navigating the deferred MBA admissions process. My diverse professional background spans roles at top companies like Visa, Yahoo, and Salesforce, where I've honed my skills in product management, AI, and software engineering. This unique blend of technical and strategic expertise allows me to offer comprehensive guidance on your MBA journey. Whether you're looking to refine your application strategy or need insights into the tech industry, I'm here to help you succeed. Let's connect and craft a plan to achieve your MBA goals!
Cesar can help with:
Application Strategy
Essays
Interviews
Recommendations
Resume
Secondary Review
Cesar also coaches for AI for Product Development, Build with AI, and IB Exams. View all.
About Cesar
I left Venezuela in 2016 during the political crisis, when I barely spoke English and had no idea what came next. Since then I've worked across strategy consulting, software engineering, AI platform product management, and AI ethics research, at places like Salesforce, Yahoo, HCL, and Visa, where I'm now building agentic AI systems. I speak six languages, and that habit of moving between worlds, technical and non-technical, one language and the next, has become the thread running through my career. I'm a deferred MBA admit to UC Berkeley Haas. I coach two things I actually live every day: 1. Agentic AI & MCP product work. I recently helped build a tool that cut a 40 minute process down to 2 minutes. 2. Deferred MBA admissions. I've been through it myself: the essays, the interviews, the long wait. Beyond my work, I've also been exploring how stablecoins could help people in hyperinflationary economies, like the one I grew up in, access the global economy. I'd love to help you figure out your AI product work or tell your MBA story well.
Why do I coach?
When I moved to the US in 2016, I didn't have anyone showing me how any of it worked, the language, the systems, the unwritten rules of school and career here. I figured most of it out the slow way, on my own. Since then, mentoring has become a constant in my life: TA-ing and mentoring 15+ students at UT Austin, running AI literacy workshops as a Claude Builder Ambassador, leading interns through real projects. I coach because I know what it's like to be capable but directionless, and how much faster things move once someone hands you the map instead of making you draw it yourself.
Work Experience
Associate Technical Product Manager
Visa
2026 - Present
Building the future of Agentic Infrastructure for Global Payments Visa Technology Associate Program | Technology Management PM, O&I Architecting AI-native agentic workflows to modernize and scale global payments infrastructure supporting $16.1T in annual volume across 200+ countries. Focusing on reducing operational friction and delivering self-service automation products.
Teaching Assistant - Full-Stack Web Development
The University of Texas at Austin
2025 - 2026
MIS 372T - Full-Stack Web Development with Professor Clint Tuttle
Research Assistant - AI & Ethics
The University of Texas at Austin
2025 - 2025
Fairness & Explainability in AI Built a large-scale automated annotation platform using AWS serverless architecture to study human-AI collaboration in Dr. Maria De-Arteaga's lab, processing 3k+ responses across multiple experimental conditions with zero manual intervention.
Product Manager - AI/ML Platform
Yahoo
2025 - 2025
Built and deployed a multilingual AI model for email classification to unlock a 2M+ user Spanish-speaking market for Yahoo Mail, bridging product strategy with engineering execution by partnering with research scientists and ML engineers to expand Yahoo’s global market reach. Authored and submitted an Invention Disclosure for a novel method of obtaining Multilingual Language Models.
Growth
Anthropic
2025 - 2025
Led AI literacy workshops on Claude.ai, Git, and CLI tools at UT Austin. Partnered with Anthropic engineers and university IT to run Claude Code demos, growing the campus builder community to 100+ members.
Software Engineer
Salesforce
2024 - 2024
Availability & Big Data Owned development and optimization of a real-time dashboard for 8k+ services, increased system API request speed by 18x, and enhanced SRE user experience. (Java, Spring Boot, Grafana)
Technical Program Manager
HCLTech
2024 - 2024
Technology Media & Telecommunications $7.2B client Led KPI-driven projects to streamline resource allocation, collaborated with global teams and aligned strategy with client goals
Software Engineer
Salesforce
2023 - 2023
Futureforce Tech Launchpad Built full-stack applications with React and Node following Agile sprints, and collaborated with a non-profit in the Bay Area
Resident Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin
2022 - 2023
Developed community among residents, spearheaded crisis management with authorities, and facilitated mentorship and programming initiatives
Strategy Analyst
Deloitte
2022 - 2022
Strategy & Analytics Consulting division Managed nationwide projects to expand services for 50K+ users, delivered data-backed recommendations, and developed impact-driven strategies
Student Associate
The University of Texas at Austin
2021 - 2022
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Education
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Bachelor of Business Administration
2024 - 2024
Semester Exchange Program
McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)
Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems
2021 - 2025
BBA in Management Information Systems BA in French Studies Certificate in Computer Science
Haas School of Business (Berkeley)
Masters of Business Administration, Technology Innovation
Accelerated Access Admit (Deferred MBA)