At LARRP, Garcia leads countywide strategic initiatives and digital operations designed to dismantle barriers for justice-impacted populations. Managing a significant operating budget, he coordinates cross-sector partnerships — with the support of the LARRP Policy team and staff — to expand access to essential services. As a key strategist, he transforms community-informed insights into structured legislative frameworks and administrative policy improvements.
Technically, he serves as the architect for LARRP LABS and the Coach Access Portal, directing platforms that automate grant compliance and transform community feedback into documented policy evidence. By embedding compliance logic directly into enterprise software workflows, tracking rules, hourly limits, and claim deadlines are programmatically enforced across diverse funding allocations from partners such as the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
As part of his ongoing work to build capacity across Los Angeles's reentry network, Garcia designed the Grant Reporting Portal, a reimbursement platform for intermediaries that pass public funding through to smaller community organizations. It starts from a simple principle: a funder's rules should live in the software, not in a reviewer's head. Each subgrantee's approved budget is the schema, so expenses can only be entered against their own lines, and one shared rules module runs in both the browser and the server, so an agency's totals and LARRP's review figures can never disagree. Every claimed dollar is tied to a receipt and proof of payment, AI reads each document for dates, vendors, and totals, and compliance checks block submission until the record is audit-ready. Authorized signers certify through a time-limited link, and the funder's reporting packet is generated with page-referenced backup rather than assembled by hand. The platform runs on a modern cloud stack with role-scoped access, server-side enforcement of every status change, secure document storage, server-side AI processing, and automated testing and deployment on every release. In practice, invoices arrive already reconciled, review becomes judgment rather than arithmetic, agencies catch errors before they cost a payment cycle, and every approved dollar carries a trail that will stand up to a county or federal audit. Because the budget template, compliance checks, and packet layout sit apart from the application logic, the same framework fits any grant program where small organizations need a faster path to payment and the administering body needs defensible records, from public health and workforce contracts to foundation-funded regranting.