About

I was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. It's a city I carry with me everywhere.

Computers came naturally to me. I spent those years opening every program and system I could find.

I graduated from Colegio Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá, Hermanos Maristas.

I studied Electronic Engineering, specializing in Automation and Process Control, at Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín in Maracaibo.

I finished a Business Management diploma at Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín. I wanted to understand how businesses work and add that to my technical background.

I did my internship at NetUno, a telecommunications company that sells cable and internet. It was my first time working with network infrastructure.

I took a gap year to do what I'd always wanted to do: music. I spent the whole year teaching myself music production, and it taught me discipline and how to finish things. My tracks are on SoundCloud if you want to listen.

I started as IT support at VPS Monitoreo Integral. I also learned to install CCTV systems there.

At 24 I made one of the biggest decisions of my life and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, looking for new opportunities and room to grow.

Mica and I started dating. It was one of the best years of my life.

I started my tech career at Thomson Reuters, giving technical support for fintech products. It was my first contact with financial technology, and I liked it from day one.

I joined Teradata, an analytics and big data company. I saw how companies use data to make real decisions. I also spent a lot of hours inside data centers, which taught me plenty.

Mica and I started making videos for Vive Simple, our side project that helps people with migration, relocation and professional development abroad. I edit the videos. We started with Argentina and now focus on Spain.

We had our move to Spain fully planned, and then we had to cancel it. You know why. It was a year of uncertainty and changes nobody saw coming.

I got curious about how web pages are built and took an online HTML and CSS course at Coder House.

I took a second Coder House course, this time in JavaScript. Learning to program changed how I look at almost everything I use.

We moved to Madrid, Spain.

I joined Palo Alto Networks, where I help customers protect their public cloud environments with Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud. It's been a good place to grow and go deep on cloud security.

I got serious about productivity. I tested apps and methods until I built an organization system that works for me.

I launched my newsletter Mi Estación de Trabajo, with tips on productivity, technology and AI. It started as an experiment and grew into a community of tech professionals. Around the same time I went deep into AI and how to use it in day-to-day work.

Palo Alto Networks promoted me to Staff Technical Support Engineer. I worked for this one.