Engineering as a discipline, not a trade

I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 6 years of experience designing, implementing, and optimizing distributed systems for payments, bank integrations, data pipelines, and SaaS products. I started in 2020 building internal dashboards and PHP websites, and since then I've worked across regulated fintech, operational logistics, and my own products end to end.

I specialize in backend architecture, API design, and real-time integrations, combining engineering reliability with business scalability in fintech and data-intensive products. That backend foundation is complemented by hands-on experience in logistics (routing, geospatial tracking), native Android development (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose), and browser extension engineering, so I can design a complete system without depending on someone else to cover half the stack.

I'm currently founder and CTO of two companies: Soluti, a logistics distribution center in Colombia, and Agendity, a scheduling SaaS for salons and barbershops. In parallel, I still work as an engineer inside other companies' teams (bank integrations in fintech, e-commerce with complex payments). That combination of roles, founder and also engineer inside a team, is intentional: it keeps me honest about which architecture decisions are actually necessary and which are just preference.

Outside client work and my own companies, I keep a steady pace of personal projects: automation, connectors to third-party systems, browser extensions, data pipelines. I don't build them on assignment, I build them because solving that kind of problem is simply what I enjoy most about this craft. Several of the blog's topics come directly from there.

I work from Medellín, Colombia, in a timezone that overlaps several hours a day with the US and much of Europe, which makes live coordination simple even with fully remote teams.