I'm currently working for 37signals as a Senior programmer in the SIP (Security, Infrastructure, Performance) team. I love OSS: I'm a Rails contributor and member of the Gitlab Core Team. I'm also interested in privacy and I recently created a Chrome extension to Protect from Email Tracking.

Principles

Below you’ll find the key engineering principles in which I believe:

  • Not over engineering: Always try to “do the simple thing”, embrace the philosophy of don’t reinvent the wheel but when is required also do the groundwork.
  • Self management: Don’t need a manager which does daily check-ins.
  • Automation is key: when something has to be done always consider the trade-off of automating the process.
  • Write code for humans: write code to be read by humans, debugged by humans and maintained by humans.

Motivations

Over the years I’ve figured out what motivates me and the conditions under which I like to work:

  • Culture: From my experience, autonomous people and cross-functional teams working through consensus and helping each other bring the best results. Micro-management is not acceptable.
  • Role: I’m mostly knowledged in back-end development using Ruby on Rails, can work on the frontend too but it’s not my strongest skill. I do embrace the DevOps movement and have hands on infrastucture management with Kubernetes.
  • Transparency: I work more effectively when the company shares as much of the long-term intentions as possible.
  • Work-life balance: While I am ok with putting in a few extra hours on rare occasions, regular over-time is not something I do.

If you’d like to know about my development career you can download my resumé.

OSS contributions

Below you can find some of my OSS contributions:

Currently I’m spending my time diving into Rails internals and working on increasing the amount of my contributions to the project.

Get in touch? Please send me a message on twitter or linkedin.