I started close to the metal.

I studied Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering at UCLV in Cuba: signal theory, analog electronics, network architecture from the physical layer up. My first real code was C and assembly for microprocessors. I crimped cables, cleaned RAM sticks to get servers to POST, and spent more time with oscilloscopes than with browsers.

Early on, I ended up managing an HPC cluster with over 120 nodes. Most of them were broken or misconfigured after a hurricane, and the previous admin had just left. I got it back in production in under a month, mostly by figuring things out as I went. It wasn't heroic. It was methodical. Break the problem down, solve what's in front of you, repeat. That's still how I work.

After that, I went through Android, full-stack web, backend APIs, always drifting toward whatever was underneath the application. By 2020, I was fully into cloud infrastructure and DevOps. Today I work at Mercedes-Benz, building and operating cloud and Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks. Before that, I led engineering teams, built ML infrastructure on AWS, and shipped deployment pipelines across different continents and time zones.

I hold an AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and I'm currently working toward the DevOps Professional.

Beyond the technical

I like systems that actually work in production, not just in slides. I like teams that deploy calmly. And I think sustainability matters: in architectures and in how you work. I train five days a week, I take sleep seriously, and I try to approach my career with the same patience I'd give a long migration: plan well, leave margins, don't burn out.

I'm also genuinely curious about how people operate: how teams make decisions under pressure, how trust builds over time, how communication shapes technical outcomes more than most engineers want to admit.

When I'm not working

I'm usually in my homelab running self-hosted LLMs, experimenting with K3s clusters, or breaking something on purpose to understand it better. I ride a motorcycle, I live in Málaga with my wife and our chihuahua, and I'm probably overdue for a ride.