I'm Andres — I design and ship backend systems in fintech, and spend my off-hours cooking, experimenting and building small tools end to end. This site runs the same way I like my systems: user-friendly, supportable and with minimal quirks.
I'm a software engineer at Citi in New York, working on backend systems in the finance domain — authentication, large-scale data pipelines, and the unglamorous plumbing that has to be right every single time.
Outside of work I'm learning and improving with each day, all while planning thinking of what the next day, the next year and next decade will bring. I have a strong interest in continuing to grow technnically and supporting others however I can. With that - I plan to go back for a Masters online with Georgia Tech. You can see that under my projects section along with some details on past and current projects.
I like systems I can reason about — code, infrastructure, or otherwise. If that's the kind of engineer you're looking for, the resume is one click away.
A mix of shipped, in-progress, and early-stage work. Some hosted here, running client-side, no backend required to press play. Full writeups and source links live on the projects page.
Top-down zombie survival, built in vanilla JS and canvas — wave spawning, reload mechanics, and a shop loop I'm still expanding.
A search layer built to separate signal from SEO noise — weighing an API-backed approach against a fully offline, client-side one. Early days, still shaping the approach.
Personal, private AI tool with tremendous daily value.
Everything on this site is self-hosted and self-funded. If a project or post was useful to you, you can help keep the lights on.