Born in the south of Spain, lived in the south-west of France, Silicon Valley, Amsterdam, and now Barcelona. I’ve been following the autodidact’s path since my parents made the mistake of getting me a computer around age 12 — breaking things, building things, fixing things, reading manuals, whatever the problem called for.

Systems, at every scale

At Apple, I worked on the backend behind Siri — the kind of infrastructure that has to stay up for every Apple device on the planet. Before that, I worked on automated video production at the Stanford School of Medicine. I’ve built large-scale monitoring platforms, auto-scaling infrastructure, and enough home automation over KNX wired into Siri to drive my house by voice.

Before they were things

In 2001 I organized my first LAN party. By 2003 I was running tournaments with up to 250 competitive players — building the network, standing up the servers, captaining my own team on the side. Counter-Strike, not content creation. This was the beginning of esports, when the prize pools were gamer hardware.

I’ve been thinking about AI for a long time. In September 2007 I went to the Singularity Summit in San Francisco, and that visit fit into a pattern that had been building for years — reading, following the work, watching the field move.

In June 2010 I was at the first DevOpsDays in Mountain View, in a small workshop room giving product feedback to Mitchell Hashimoto on Vagrant, a side project of his at the time. A year or two later he started HashiCorp. In those same years I was an early contributor to Ansible and Grafana, trading notes with their engineers on GitHub issues and PRs, and ran the Ansible Bay Area Meetup for a stretch.

Esports. Ansible. Grafana. Vagrant. I was involved with each of them in their infancy. Today one of them is a multi-billion-dollar company, two are category-defining tools, and two kicked off entire industries. Siri was already running at scale when I worked on it, which meant being in AI infrastructure years before OpenAI and Anthropic made it a career category. I’m just curious, I follow what’s interesting, and sometimes I end up contributing, adopting, or building something because it’s what I needed. I also got lucky — being in the right cities, meeting the right people, having the doors open when I walked up to them.

Now

I live in Barcelona. I work in the distributed systems infrastructure field; on my own time I build — currently a couple of open-source projects at the intersection of AI agents and infrastructure. This site is where my writing lives.