About Me

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I’m not really sure why I’m writing this. I guess I’ve always wanted a blog, I’ve been working on one for years, always held back for… fear I guess. I hid that fear behind the excuse of “I need to learn frontend design because I want my ideas to come to life and I can’t find anything off-the-shelf that helps me get there”. Recently, two things happened:

  1. AI has gotten so good (at least from where I sit on this) that I can have it build most web front-ends I want. And,
  2. I realized I’m writing for myself! It doesn’t matter if my writing sucks, or if it’s useless, or if no one reads it - I shouldn’t “fear” writing and publishing whatever I feel like because WHO CARES!

So welcome to my mind’s trails :)

Who am I? That depends on the day and the context.

💼 Professionally, I’ve spent most of my career working with data, officially as a data engineer. Unofficially as a data analyst, ETL developer, analytics engineer, QA dev, infrastructure engineer, data architect, manager, mentee, mentor, etc. I’ve been in many unofficial roles, I like to think of myself as a do-it-all, as a generalist. I like getting things done and I don’t really care (most times) if something that needs doing doesn’t fit my job function. Over time, I’ve become opinionated on this, and sometimes I do care, but that’s a trail for another time.

🏠 Some days I’m a futbolero, others a hiker, a tinkerer, a brewer, a photographer, a gamer, a birder, a diver (scuba and free)… I have many interests and that’s often a problem because there isn’t enough life to dedicate to them all. Whatever it is I find myself doing, it always comes 2nd to spending time with my loved ones.

I’m proudly 🇲🇽, living in 🇺🇸.

On “my mind’s trails” and “up the mountain trails” - I may use these often. I like “going up the mountain trails” as a better analogy for the way I think/work than saying “going down the rabbit hole”. Thinking of going down a hole implies going down dark, unknown paths and that doesn’t align with what often ends up happening in my brain, the different paths my mind takes usually lead to new ideas, discoveries, learnings - paths that make me better. My way of embracing this way of thinking is to compare it to mountain trails, not rabbit holes.

I’ve organized my blog in three main sections:

  • Building: this is my dev space, where I’ll write about tech, my homelab, and maybe sometimes about career-related things. A space for when I’m building stuff that I have some idea about how to do.
  • Wandering: This is the home for life, travel, photography. The space for when my mind and body wander together.
  • Tinkering: Finally, a space for random stuff - a digital space for the mind’s lab, for when I go off-the-trail (mostly responsibly of course).