Who am I?

TL;DR: a decent software developer, acting as engineering manager. On my spare time I do some research on spectrum management discoveries and politics.

My professional history divides in 2 areas: Engineering and Software & Computer Networks and Internet Governance.

I studied at University of Los Andes, Venezuela and Graduated at 2016 with a title of Systems Engineering majoring in Computer Science. I discovered back then that I liked more the computer networks more than coding (hence, decent coder).

On Internet Governance:

I studied CISCO CCNA curricula at the Academia Latinoamericana de Redes, which took me to the Internet Governance universe. I got selected by the Internet Society (ISOC) as an IETF Fellow back in 2013. Went to Germany and fell absolutely and irreparably in love of the role of the Internet to humanity, most of the content in this site will be related to that topic.

In 2015 I was selected as an ISOC ambassador for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Joa Pessoa, Brazil. Where had the opportunity to be a founding member of the Dynamic Coalition from Community Connectivity (DC3) and got bitten by the bug of wireless networks which drove me to write my under-graduated thesis.

With ISOC I partcipated in other IGF’s collaborating with the coalition with a couple articles about spectrum sensing and the state of telecommunications and community networks in Venezuela. And a World Development Telecommunications Conference (WTDC-17) where I was surprised by the politics of spectrum management.

The best part so far…

From 2018 to 2020, I collaborated as a researcher fellow with the amazing Article19 on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Spectrum management issues. Work that took us to a Plenipotentiary Meeting (PP-18) in Dubai, RightsCon 2019 in Tunis for a session on regulatory approaches for CNs and an ITU-D Contribution on Economic and social development enabled by complementary connectivity approaches at ITU headquarters in Geneva. I should mention here that I REALLY like to travel.

By April, 2020 I took a time off from activism since for me was a pretty exhausting work… I still have some work to publish on spectrum maps and I should be going back later this year… stay tunned.

On Software Development and Operations Management:

From 2010 to 2015 I developed software actively and professionally… I founded a company, learned bash, python, django, RESTAPIs, PHP, APACHE etc… from then on I migrated naturally to management positions going from project, to product, to operations management.

By 2016 I wrote my thesis on Spectrum Sensing with Low cost devices. I worked with bash, arduino, RaspberryPI, spectrum analyzers, GPS and geo-localization, RTL, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and many, many antennas.

At 2017 I moved to Mexico and was hired by the amazing pixel2HTML and worked there as an operation manager until 2019 when I moved to Argentina and tried the more corporate side by working with Cognizant Softvision, EY and Mulesoft. I learned a lot about some Industry giants aaand… also learned that I’m not a big fan of bureaucracy.

Now I work at a GREAT company as an engineering manager. My stack these days includes docker, RDS, AWS, React, NEXT, microservices and a few more things. I’m happy to be back!

It is probably my family and my work that gives sense to my life. I couldn’t think of a life without software and the Internet.