I like building things that still work five years from now.

I'm from Cuba, and I've made my living from software for 13 years. I didn't start with screens but with what sits underneath them: my first years were in IT security in the banking sector, dealing with networks, servers and backups that had to be restored when something failed. That's where I learned that the parts nobody sees are the ones holding everything up.

Once I realized I could build things instead of just protecting them, I moved to the web and never looked back. Since then I've worked for companies in the United States, Spain, Ecuador and France, and I've usually joined projects someone else had started. Some could be carried forward with confidence. Others had to be rebuilt because nobody dared touch them. The difference was rarely the technology. It was the decisions made in the first few weeks.

Today I work as an engineer at QA-BIT, and in my own time I take on direct clients and build products like Stockvenza. That's why I only take on a few projects at once: I'd rather give each one the attention it deserves than fill up my calendar.