I'm Ricardo.

About my career.

On Software Development

I have no bachelor degree, I dropped out because I was a very lousy student back then, maybe I still am.

Although I did 2 years of an Engineering degree, including maths, programming, structures, databases and electronics.

I'm a very good autodidact, learning on my own way has proven to be very successful, for me and others.

I truly enjoy solving the puzzle. Getting that kick of satisfaction.

I have wear many hats in my life from Web generalist, JS expert, Python engineer, MLE, Data Engineer, Team lead, Manager.

I have worked in small shops, museums, startups, medium sized tech (not on Big Tech so far).

I'm a pragmatic. Perfect is the enemy of Done.

Current Tech

Nowadays I'm a hands-on Data Analytics Team Lead/Manager.

I really enjoy exploring, managing and visualizing data, mostly using SQL but also Python.

I work with Google Cloud Platform, I really like how easy to use are services like BigQuery, BigQueryML, CloudRun and GCS.

I also work with a diverse arrange of buzzworded tech like: Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Protobuf, GenAI, etc.

I have a special place in my heart for simple but powerful tools.

Known Tech

Initially I adored the visual nature of the Web tech, I'm was forged by LAMP..

To this day I like from time to time to "hack" things up with PHP and JavaScript

But I'm not expert of "modern web development": frameworks on both sides might be useful, but bring me no joy.

I think I know my way around Vanilla JS, the DOM, the BOM, etc.

I can code on PHP, NodeJS and Python. A bit of Java and Go and Rust.

I don't enjoy Java, Kotlin is tempting but I haven't had the chance.

I <3 Linux, the terminal, Bash, Make, Git, anything that helps me automate the mundane.

I don't care much about hardcore Linux distributions, simple and functional is better.

I know my way around Cloud Services, AWS and Google are on my resume.