May 28, 2026

Loving the job again

I’ve been doing a lot of blogging lately. You might be tired of hearing me complain about my work, but I feel like this is helping me—like a mantra—to find balance and move on. It’s been a good ride: In 2018, I started in data by maintaining a data platform based on Hive (Azure HDInsight at the time, coordinated with Azure Batch and webjobs), and then I helped maintain the migration to Databricks. At that time, I was mostly an ETL developer. I learned Scala (and fell in love with it) and wrote a lot of complex business logic. Read more

May 24, 2026

Betting on Rust

I quit my job after the trial period because I didn’t find what I expected from a startup, nor did I get the benefits of an established company. It was a dealbreaker. However, I will remain for an extra 3 months since there is a project I want to be involved in. I’ve been granted more flexibility, and I want to use this time to prepare myself for what’s next. Read more

January 6, 2026

Aprender de nuevo

2025 ha sido un año bastante loco. Pasé la mayor parte del año sentando las bases de una startup en el mundo de la seguridad, haciendo frontend, backend, mucho devops y… poco data. Me pilló de lleno la era de la AI y como siempre, el campo ajeno es más verde. Viví la burbuja de v0 y mi trabajo respecto a este, fue bastante miserable. El proyecto a medida que crecía dejaba de ser funcional. Un cambio manual que arreglase el mismo era incompatible. Read more

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