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The Consulting Mirage: When Technical Debt Becomes a Deliverable

The Consulting Mirage: When Technical Debt Becomes a Deliverable

I remember during my time at Careem, just before the Uber acquisition. I was tasked with leading the DevOps adoption across the entire tech organization. It was a massive, interesting problem: building a CI/CD platform to help hundreds of Engineers ship software safely and faster. Then, the company hired

From Student Leader to Career Politician: A Portrait of a Broken System

From Student Leader to Career Politician: A Portrait of a Broken System

Public service should be a vocation, a temporary chapter where you bring outside skills, professional independence, and an independent livelihood to the table. But across Latin America, and acutely in Venezuela, a broken system has twisted it into an emergency employment plan. It creates a dangerous class of people: "

Designing my attention: defaults over discipline

Designing my attention: defaults over discipline

Every day we are bombarded with petabytes of information. Not only on the internet and social media keeping up with the world news and latest trends and memes and, lately, we all must keep up with the constantly evolving GenAI world that has taken over the world. There's

A Decade Later: Microservices After the Hype

A Decade Later: Microservices After the Hype

A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled “My take on microservices”. I cannot believe it has been almost a decade, nine years to be precise, since I published it. It is still accessible on my old blog via this link if you want to read it. My

A new hope for Venezuela?

A new hope for Venezuela?

As a Venezuelan living abroad, there are dates on the calendar that carry weight long after they pass. For many of us, April 11 is one of those dates. Whether you were impacted by what happened, lost someone or were injured in 2002, April 11th left deep scars in the

AI for the Sake of AI Is the New Microservices

AI for the Sake of AI Is the New Microservices

AI has been eating the world faster than Galactus, and this time we did not even get a Silver Surfer to warn us. Suddenly, companies are forcing their engineers to use AI to write code faster and “more efficiently,” while we, engineers, are still figuring out what it even means

My vibe coding experience

My vibe coding experience

I never expected to be the guy defending AI-assisted coding. People know me as the purist UNIX person who configures everything by hand, controls every part of my stack, and doesn’t let anything touch my code unless I understand it line by line and, honestly, that’s still