About me
From wanting to be a doctor to a life in technology
For years I had my future all figured out: I was going to be a doctor. White coat, stethoscope, the whole deal. Until, at 10, a computing course crossed my path… and won.
I was in 4th grade when I started and finished it as I entered secondary school: two years that, no exaggeration, changed the game for me. That's where I met programming, and this was no “turn-the-computer-on-and-off” class: I began drawing flowcharts in PowerPoint and ended up wrestling with languages that are museum pieces today, like Clipper 5 and Visual FoxPro, plus the legendary Microsoft FrontPage. For a kid that age it was a real challenge, but I was hooked and never let go. The diagnosis was clear: medicine wasn't my thing. Technology was.
How I started
Now, typing away for fun as a kid is one thing; doing it for real, with clients, deadlines and people counting on things going right, is a whole different game. My true start in the professional world came in 2014, and it's burned into my memory because it coincided with another big debut: becoming a dad. My first son was about to be born. I trained myself self-taught during university, learning on my own and at my own pace what the classroom didn't quite cover. Spoiler: persistence beat impostor syndrome.
My “baptism” into the working world
My first “real” experience came through one of those once-in-a-blue-moon opportunities: at university I was picked for a program that chose a single candidate among several universities to win a spot at a company. The tiny catch? I passed the test in a language I didn't even know at the time: PHP. I learned it at full speed just to hold on to the spot.
The ending wasn't exactly a fairy tale: I was promised a payment that never arrived. At the time it was frustrating, especially with a baby on the way. But over the years I found the silver lining: my payment was the knowledge. That's where I truly understood what it means to live a project from start to finish, and I walked away with a lesson I haven't forgotten once since: without a signed agreement to back it up, there's no deal. Today I fondly call it my baptism into the working world.
From the desk to the remote world
In 2020 the whole world got turned upside down and, while everyone was discovering you could actually work in pajamas, I made my definitive leap to remote work. Far from holding me back, it opened the door to collaborating with companies outside the country. But I tell that part of the story, calmly, in my experience.
What sets me apart
Over the years I developed something uncommon: the ability to move between two worlds that rarely talk to each other. On one side, serious technical development. On the other, business vision and growth: understanding what moves the needle, what matters to the client, and how technology creates real value, not just features. That combination has led me to work with very different kinds of clients: from well-known brands like Domino's Pizza to the government sector, both municipal (H. Ayuntamiento de Jáltipan) and federal (INFOTEC), and companies abroad.
And no, I didn't spend my whole life on a single technology, I'd get bored. I started in web development, jumped to hybrid mobile development and eventually ended up on the other side of the table too, in leadership roles, including the CTO chair. The upside? I speak both languages: the one used by people who build and the one used by people who decide. And when those two worlds finally understand each other, you save a lot of headaches (and more than a few endless meetings).
The personal side
Outside of work, my one true driving force is my family. And if code is my playing field, the gym is my therapy: my little window to unplug, recharge and keep my sanity. I like to stay active, and over time that habit turned into a family affair: my wife trains with me, my son is just starting to join the team, and my daughter, still too little for the gym, already found her own version doing yoga in the living room. We must be doing something right.
And as cheesy as it sounds, the gym taught me something I apply to everything else: results don't show up overnight, they come from showing up even when you don't feel like it. That stubborn consistency is the same one I lean on when a project gets rough.
Becoming a dad also flipped a switch. I stopped working just to work and started doing it with a clear why: to give my family something better and, along the way, to let my kids see me enjoy what I do.
And to wind down, I'm a big movie person (I'll dive into just about any genre) and I've always got music playing: while I code there's almost always something on, whatever the style. A bit of a music junkie, honestly. Between family, the gym, a good movie and a good playlist, I've got my balance sorted.
