In motion
I think better when I've moved — so most days I do, across a few different things rather than just one.
Senior Software Engineer
To build & to teach & to make software that ages well.
I build software the way I'd want it built for me: readable, honest, and small enough to fit in someone's head. The job isn't to ship the cleverest abstraction — it's to leave the codebase better than I found it for whoever inherits it next.
After a decade between consultancies, healthtech, and side projects, what sticks is this: good engineering is a long game. Patterns matter less than the discipline to read what you wrote yesterday and ask if it's still the simplest thing that works.
Lately I'm fascinated by what AI changes about the craft — not as autocomplete, but as a collaborator. Most of what you're reading on this site was written next to one.
A decade delivering software — from consultancy delivery floors to connected-care systems. My foundation is durable, universal craft; .NET just happens to carry most of my stack. The short version below; the full story is one click deeper.
Explore the full careerWhen the laptop closes I'm in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, on the southeastern edge of Madrid — close enough to the city, far enough to hear it go quiet. The Southeast Regional Park starts at the door — low hills, pine woods and scrub, the old gravel-pit lagoons, and the Manzanares and Jarama rivers meeting just downstream. I traded a few minutes of commute for room to breathe.
Home is a family with two daughters — the eldest 2 years, the youngest just 3 months. They're the reason I guard the hours after work as fiercely as the ones inside it.
I think better when I've moved — so most days I do, across a few different things rather than just one.
Sci-fi, a few novels, and the odd book that nudged how I think — like Dune and Los Asquerosos.
The rest of the shelf →Best place is email — felixeu31@gmail.com. I read everything, and reply to most things within a couple of days.
Blog
- Bringing my blog home: Hashnode → felixdiez.es/blog
- Notes on a zero-inbound VPS
- DotNetConf 2022: mi experiencia
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