01. Philosophy
I trained as a designer before I ever touched a codebase, and it changed the way I build everything. I don't ship components in isolation. I think in flows, ecosystems, and the maintenance cost three quarters from now. Every engineering decision is a design decision wearing different clothes.
My specialty is translation. I sit with product managers and designers and turn vague business intent into technical acceptance criteria, architecture decisions, and milestones a team can actually ship. Most engineers wait for a perfect spec to land on their desk. I write it.
I'm deep in agentic coding workflows and LLM-integrated prototyping, establishing AI-assisted development patterns that measurably lifted my team's delivery speed. But the judgment, the taste, the architecture. That stays human. AI accelerates the work. It doesn't decide what the work should be.
02. The Journey
Chapter 04. Leading Product Engineering
I co-lead engineering for a 13-engineer team, owning technical scoping, architecture decisions, and delivery of customer-facing features for enterprise clients. I operate at the seam between product, design, and engineering, translating ambiguity into acceptance criteria and shipped milestones. I'm also the technical lead for two AI-powered products, prototyping LLM-integrated features and establishing the AI-assisted development patterns that raised the entire team's delivery speed.
Chapter 03. Owning Delivery
Promoted and handed ownership of a 0-to-1 internal tool (requirements gathering through deployment, coordinating scoping and delivery across stakeholders). This is where my design training moved into the foreground: I could speak the designers' language fluently, closing the gaps between intent and implementation that most engineers don't even see. I drove frontend architecture decisions and built the reusable component libraries that accelerated the entire product team.
Chapter 02. Building the Foundation
My first role at scale. Coming from a UX-focused education, I threw myself into full-stack work (internal tools, features, and fixes across React, Vue.js, and Node.js backends). My eye for detail set me apart early: the work didn't just function, it felt right, because I instinctively understood spacing, hierarchy, and flow in ways that were never on the ticket.
Chapter 01. Where Design Met Code
Hired specifically because I could live between design and engineering. While other junior developers matched mockups, I was questioning interaction patterns, improving accessibility, and optimizing responsiveness (because I'd been trained to think that way). I shipped production React components with unusual fidelity and helped deliver an administrative platform that improved daily operations.
03. Capabilities
React.js, Next.js, and TypeScript, I ship scalable, accessible, performant products for enterprise clients.OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. This measurably improves delivery speed while keeping humans in charge of judgment and architecture.Next.js + Contentstack), accessible design systems, and performance-first experiences (Tailwind CSS, Core Web Vitals optimization, Adobe Edge Delivery Services). My UX degree means my architecture decisions account for the user’s experience, not just the developer’s convenience.Scrum, experienced across Node.js, WordPress, PHP, and Google Cloud when the product demands it.React · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · Contentstack · Figma · Git · OpenAI Codex · Claude Code
04. Roots
Cali, Colombia
BS in Interactive Media Design · UX and Human-Computer Interaction · 2015–2020
“Where I learned that the best technology disappears. The experience is all that remains. This lens guides every engineering decision I make.”
Portsmouth, OH
High School Graduate · 2014–2015
“A year in the US that sharpened my English and set the stage for a career working across borders.”
Cali, Colombia
High School Graduate · 2000–2014
05. Connect
Whether it’s a product engineering role, a technical leadership opportunity, or a conversation about AI-assisted development, I’m always open to what’s next.