I entered the world of computing in 1997, writing small programs as a kid in Cuba. Since then, I’ve turned that passion into a career spanning software engineering, entrepreneurship, and research.
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⚡ Three decades in tech and still learning, still building, still sharing.
GitHub Contribution Chart
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title Career Timeline (1997–Present)
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section Professional Roles
Programmer :done, 1997, 2010
Software Engineer :active, 2010, 2025
Software Architect :active, 2012, 2025
Project Manager :active, 2015, 2025
section Education & Service
High School (Exact Sciences) :done, 2001, 2004
Military Service (Army IT) :done, 2004, 2005
B.Sc. Software Eng. (CUJAE) :done, 2005, 2010
section Entrepreneurship
Co-founder — Apretaste! :active, 2011, 2025
Founder — Divengine :active, 2011, 2025
section Industry Experience
Software Engineer — Magaya :active, 2020, 2025
section Key Milestones
ACPOL Game (ASCII, BASIC/CP-M → MS-DOS) :milestone, 1997, 0y
ASCII Paint & Custom Format for Sprites :milestone, 1997, 0y
QBasic Inventory System (School Supplies) :milestone, 1998, 0y
Reports with Dot-Matrix Printers :milestone, 1999, 0y
First Drupal Websites :milestone, 2005, 0y
Launch of Apretaste! :milestone, 2011, 0y
Start with Python :milestone, 2011, 0y
Joining Magaya :milestone, 2020, 0y
Entering Odoo Ecosystem :milestone, 2024, 0y
section Core Technologies
Mallard/GW/QBasic (ASCII graphics, UI framework) :done, 1997, 2000
Pascal, C :done, 2000, 2004
JavaScript / TypeScript :active, 2003, 2025
C++ / C# / Java :active, 2005, 2025
PHP + Drupal + WordPress :active, 2005, 2025
PostgreSQL / SQL :active, 2005, 2025
Python / Prolog :active, 2011, 2025
Node.js / React / Vue :active, 2016, 2025
Odoo :active, 2024, 2025
section Disciplines & Tools
Office Tools (Excel, Access, VBA) :active, 2000, 2025
Operations Research :active, 2000, 2025
Software Eng. (RUP, UML) :active, 2006, 2025
Artificial Intelligence :active, 2006, 2025
BPM & BPMN :active, 2007, 2025
Linux / GitHub :active, 2007, 2025
- 🏆 2025 – 5 years at Magaya as Software Engineer
- 🚀 2011 – Founded Divengine Software Solutions
- 👨💻 2011 – Co-founded Apretaste!, bringing internet access to Cuba
- 🎓 2010 – B.Sc. in Software Engineering (Technological University of Havana)
- 🏅 2009 – ACM-ICPC programming contest
- 💻 1997 – First steps into programming
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✍️ blog-reflections – Versioned notebook of personal reflections on time, logic, information, and systems. All content lives in the Wiki. Released periodically as a PDF.
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🧩 stage-design-pattern – A behavioral design pattern for structured, asynchronous communication between objects with explicit Speaker and Listener roles, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and clear architectural practices.
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🔄 process-design-pattern – Behavioral Design Pattern focused on managing the behavior and interactions of software processes. Related to patterns dealing with workflows, states, and decisions but introduces its own unique methodology.
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🏗️ abcd-architecture – Architecture designed to demonstrate how to structure applications with clear responsibilities, leveraging a modular and scalable approach.
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⚡ proposal-universal-catch-and-when – Proposal to extend error handling in ECMAScript by allowing any block to have multiple "catch" and "finally" clauses. A new "when" clause is introduced for conditional errors and the "catch" body is allowed to be optional.