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Where am I and what am I doing?

Last updated: January 23, 2024
Location: Miraflores,
Lima
Weather: 80°F, few clouds
Reading: The Best American Short Stories — Ed. by Curtis Sittenfeld
Playing: Apex Legends
Eating: Bife de chorizo
Drinking: Coffee (always)
I work as a product lead and solutions architect at Valere.

We provide software development and consultancy services. Each project normally lasts about six months from conception to completion.


The company is based in the US but has offices in other countries. We have a multicultural and international workforce, and it's also pretty laid back. I love it here.


I don't code too much as part of this role, but when I do, I mostly work the MERN stack.


My main duties are designing business-oriented product solutions, helping clients transition over to us as a solutions architect, and implementing operations processes in our offices. I also coded the company website myself (prior to it being updated). I used React and Tailwind and, before I handed it over for maintenance to the dev team, I was working on using Astro.js for the CMS.


I started my programming journey back in high school with Java, though I didn't touch code again for over a decade. Huge shoutout to Brad Traversy.

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I'm working on a short story collection written in second-person. I plan on turning it into a choose-your-own-adventure web app. The book will be available here.


I live in Lima semi-permanently but travel around South America for most of the year. I suppose I'm biased but Peruvian cuisine is my favorite Latin American cuisine. I'm a few blocks away from the Pacific Ocean so I've been thinking about taking up surfing.


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