The journey so far

From writing my first line of code in 2012 to running an AI-powered experiment in 2025. Here's how I got here.

2025 Present

Founder @ Brainz LLC

The experiment begins. One person + AI building multiple products. LexPro for legal management, Brainz Lab for AI-native infrastructure. Testing the limits of what's possible.

Solo Founder AI-First Development 4,014 GitHub contributions
2024

Head of Engineering @ Picap LATAM

Leading 89 people across engineering, QA, and product. Scaling the platform to millions of rides. Speaking at MongoDB events, DigitalOcean Deploy London.

Highlights
  • + NYSE Investor Day with DigitalOcean
  • + DigitalOcean Deploy London speaker
  • + MongoDB Success Story
  • + Team scaled to 89 people
CTO 89 people Public Speaking
2022 - 2023

Head of Engineering @ Picap

Promoted from Tech Lead to Head of Engineering. Building the technical foundation for LATAM's fastest-growing mobility platform. DigitalOcean customer story published.

Highlights
  • + DigitalOcean Customer Story
  • + Snowflake Data for Breakfast speaker
  • + GitHub contributions: 581 → 1,227
  • + Moved from Tech Lead to Head of Engineering
Head of Engineering Mobility Scale-up
2020 - 2022

CTO @ Symplifica

First CTO role. Leading technology strategy for an HR tech startup. Building the team from scratch, defining architecture, establishing engineering culture.

Highlights
  • + MINTIC podcast appearance
  • + Built team of 23 engineers
  • + First CTO title
  • + HR tech product development
CTO 23 engineers HR Tech
2016 - 2021

Director of IT @ ROEPA International

Building enterprise systems across multiple countries. ERP development, microservices architecture, leading distributed teams in Colombia and Germany.

Highlights
  • + International experience (Germany)
  • + Devatax - 5 tax software products
  • + ROEPA ERP system
  • + Led 6 engineers
Director of IT Enterprise International
2014 - 2016

Senior Developer & Tech Lead

Growing as a developer. Taking on leadership responsibilities. Building products at Archdaily, CCoins, and various startups. Learning what works and what doesn't.

Tech Lead Archdaily CCoins
2012 - 2014

The Beginning

Started with Rails. Fell in love with building things. Those first projects were rough, but every line of code was a lesson. RubyMine became my home.

Ruby on Rails RubyMine since day 1 First steps

The evolution

2012
Junior Dev
Learning Rails
2016
Tech Lead
Leading teams
2020
CTO
Strategy & vision
2025
Founder
AI experiment

Key milestones

1
First production app
2012 - The one that made me realize this is what I wanted to do
2
First team lead role
2016 - Learning that coding is only half the job
3
First CTO title
2020 - Symplifica trusted me to lead their tech
4
NYSE Investor Day
2024 - Standing on the trading floor with DigitalOcean
5
89-person org
2024 - Largest team I've ever led at Picap
6
The AI experiment
2025 - Going solo with AI. Let's see what happens.

What's next?

The timeline keeps growing. Right now I'm focused on proving that one person + AI can build real, valuable products. LexPro and Brainz Lab are the test cases. If this works, it changes everything about how software gets built.