About finch

Vision and Mission

Vision

To become the default infrastructure for intentional early-career recruiting — replacing cold, volume-based application systems with a smarter, outcome-driven approach where students are evaluated more efficiently and the path from education to experience is transparent and merit-based.

Mission

To transform the internship application process from a frustrating numbers game into an intentional, data-driven strategy that helps students earn the opportunities they deserve — while Finch streamlines, optimizes, and strengthens their path to interviews.

Origin Story

Carlos was trying to apply to internships as a CS major and was not getting any responses from mass applications. He understood his own pain points and thought of a more efficient way to approach the process. He built a functioning backend that minimized the number of applications he had to fill out while maximizing his success rate for interviews. That's how Finch was born.


Team

Nicanor Garza-Zazueta

Nicanor Garza-Zazueta

CEO & Co-founder

An Industrial Distribution Engineering student at Texas A&M focused on building ventures that create measurable, lasting impact. A Meloy Fellows Grant recipient, he operates at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, and execution. Known for assembling high-performing teams and driving growth through relationship-building and disciplined sales leadership.

Jose Tirado

Jose Tirado

CTO & Co-founder

An Industrial Engineering student at Texas A&M who enjoys solving problems and improving how systems operate. Driven by analytical thinking to create practical, measurable impact. Thrives best when encountering nuanced problems that need outside-the-box solutions — focused on streamlining all people and operations within Finch.

Carlos Luna Pena

Carlos Luna Pena

CTO & Co-founder

A junior Computer Science student at Texas A&M with a cybersecurity minor and statistics emphasis. Technical Lead for AIPHRODITE (a computer vision project built with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Hugging Face) and co-founder of Finch. His work spans Python, LangChain, LaTeX resume generation, LinkedIn scraping, and automated outreach systems. Placed 2nd in the Accenture Case Competition leading his team's AI operations research.