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I’m a software engineer from Barranquilla, Colombia. I installed my first Linux distro, CrunchBang, when I was a teenager, after my old Windows XP PC had a RAM slot failure. Since then, I’ve spent countless hours hacking laptops and single-board computers. I’m still amazed by the fact that one can create beautiful things with just a few lines of code.

I was granted a scholarship for a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering and later another for a master’s degree. I’m deeply grateful to my mom, teachers, classmates, and the many wise people I met along the way; they pushed me beyond my boundaries.

I was first introduced to the Web in the second year of my bachelor’s program. I built a PHP app over a weekend and kept learning by developing scrapers, Java & Kotlin Android apps, retro videogames, Laravel & Rails REST APIs, and machine learning experiments. I landed my first job working with Node.js and React by the end of that year.

During my master’s, I conducted research in high-performance computing on a 936-core cluster with 416 GB of RAM. I applied data assimilation methods such as EnKF and 3D-Var to advance high-resolution WRF weather modeling.

Over the years, I’ve had the chance to work with startups at different stages, from building MVPs to scaling systems that handle over 3.5 million daily transactions (Getir 2023).

Today, I work across web, mobile, distributed systems, databases, networks, and offline-first architectures. I build and contribute to open source projects, and advocate for self-hosted solutions.

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