I'm a software engineer who can't stop building things. By day I'm a Senior Engineer at The Trade Desk. By night I'm usually yelling at Claude Code, wiring up AI agents, or convincing myself that this side project is the one.
The origin story
I grew up in Guatemala, where I picked up a guitar and decided that music was my entire personality. That conviction carried me to Madrid and then Australia, where I studied sound engineering and music — because apparently one country wasn't enough to figure out that being a rockstar wasn't paying the bills.
Eventually I landed in London, where I had a plot twist: I fell in love with code. Did a coding bootcamp, got hooked, then went full send and completed a Master's in Computer Science. Somewhere along the way I stopped writing songs and started writing functions. The debugging is surprisingly similar.
London became home for years — I built a career in software, started teaching software engineering at BrainStation (helping career-changers make the same leap I did), and discovered that explaining things is just as fun as building them.
Then in 2025, because I hadn't lived in enough countries yet, I moved to New York City. Brooklyn, specifically. Still building, still teaching, still occasionally picking up the guitar when nobody's listening.
Four countries, two careers, one increasingly chaotic desk.