About me

Hi! I'm Juan—father, husband, sports enthusiast, and professional overthinker. I write about the messy reality of building products—the decisions, trade-offs, and lessons nobody talks about. By day, I wrangle code as a product engineer, diving into product development, data, and security.

Turns out being a dad and being an engineer have more in common than you'd think: both require debugging mysterious issues at 3 AM, patience with unpredictable behavior, and the ability to explain things in five different ways until something clicks.

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January 1, 2026

The GradientThe feedback loop that makes agentic coding work is just gradient descent in disguise.

2 min

agentic codingoptimizationfeedback loopsautomation

December 4, 2025

The Fire ChiefMany small, coordinated efforts can solve problems that no single big push could safely handle.

1 min

coordinationproblem solvingteamworkrisk management

July 25, 2025

LeaksThe power of questioning assumptions in software development.

2 min