Carlos attended UC Davis as an undergraduate in computer science, and working for the school both in UC Davis Extension's IT group, and as an activities coordinator for UC Davis Extension's Center for International Education. He continued to grow his programming experience as a Programmer for Human Ecology, before eventually coming to work for Mark Lubell at the Center for Environmental Policy & Behavior.

He currently continues supporting research programming in web application development, online survey development, data management, and social network analysis, as well as providing support for the Department of Environmental Science & Policy as a Systems Architect.

He also services as the lead support for ArcGIS ArcGIS at UC Davis as the service owner for the campus, doing some occasional spatial analysis and GIS training across the campus. Additionally, he serves the as a CoChair for UC Davis' IT Security Committee.