Hi,
When I was 7 years old I was introduced to Logo at my school's computer lab. I wasn't told that I was coding. It was just a game for me. I fell in love right away. I built chart graphing tools, interactive videogames, art.
10 years later when I had to choose a major to study - Universities in Mexico, forcing you to make a life changing choice with your barely post-puberty brain - I rediscovered programming.
It was pure happenstance. We didn't study code in our computer lab, we studied to get Microsoft Office certifications - I'm 2009's Mexico's 2nd place in Excel. On my last semester we were a little ahead of our study program, so my teacher whom I will always be grateful for decided to spend a month teaching us to code in C.
That was a game changer. I always knew I loved computers but somehow never realized that I wanted to know how to write software on them. I never knew I already knew how, just with a little turtle painting things on screen instead of a dark screen with pointers and memory allocation problems.
This short story is just to say: I love code. Maybe a little bit too much.
Ever since choosing code I've worked in a lot of different stuff, you can read more about it in the sidebar.
Interviewers ask me: which one are you, backend, frontend, mobile, fullstack?
I have a really hard time answering that. I'm curious, that's what I am.
I live in the Seattle area, with my beautiful wife - she's a fantastic designer and a wonderful person - and our adopted cat, Matcha.
I love photography, books, cars.
Get in touch #
Want to discuss some book? App ideas? Why the 1967 Mustang is peak Mustang?
I'm very introverted, but I really appreciate when people reach out
Work #
- 2009-2015: Ran a mildly successful automotive blog in Mexico (offline)
- 2014-2015: Launched a Point-of-Sale iPad app startup (offline)
- 2015-2017: Revamped Microsoft Window's Telemetry system
- 2017-2019: Created developer tools for making Halo Infinite
- 2018: Launched a Pocket-to-Kindle epub generator for magazines (offline)
- 2019-2022: Launched Amazon Astro's companion app for iOS and Android
- 2022-2024: Led Twilio's Segment React Native and Flutter SDKs launch
- 2023-2024: Learned SwiftUI by making my own activity tracking iOS app: LongAgo
- 2024: Back at Microsoft working on AI Frameworks Developer tools