About
"What's your deal, man?"
Since you asked, imaginary Pablo.
Like my dog, I'm a mix. Unlike my dog, I broadly know what I'm a mix of:
- My father is second-generation American, prior family from Germany ("Meier!") 🇺🇸
- My mother is Guatemalan 🇬🇹
I'm an American citizen, and was born and raised here.
I'm 36, living in San Francisco. I went to Brown University and got a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Music (which was not really a music degree; it was more "sound technology for sound design + digital installation art"). I speak fluent Spanish (never monolingual). I'm a middle child with an older brother and a younger sister.
For money, I've mostly worked as a software developer and engineering manager.
Anything else?
I'm a licensed hypnotherapist, though I don't and have never had a practice. I just think it's neat 🌀
I trained to be a dance fitness instructor. I taught a few classes, but had a falling out with the studio owner. This was years ago and have lost the moves as an instructor, but will tear out the floor in any Zumba class. 🕺
I love hard video games, but don't play them very much. I'm learning the accordion 🪗
Software jobs
| Company | Duration | Team(s) | Stack(s) | City | Company size at join | Pablo's Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | 2010—2012 | Flash Player and Runtime | C++ (deployed on 1bn devices lol), Java | SF | idk, thousands | A-, cool place actually |
| 2012—2013 | Google Cloud; API Dashboard | Java | Mountain View | idk, tens of thousands | D-, extremely bad gig | |
| Sup | April 2014—December 2014 | Sup | Java (Android apps), Node, Mongo | Philly (remote), NYC later | Founding engineer | A, brought me back to life |
| Reonomy | Feb 2015—August 2016 | Reonomy | Java, Angular, Node, Python | NYC | ~14 | B-, a bit nuts but very grateful |
| ClassPass | August 2016—October 2017 | ClassPass | Java, Python | NYC | 250 | C-, oh the dysfunction |
| Lyft | November 2017—May 2019 | Passenger Experience | Python, Dynamo | NYC | First 10 in NYC office, company at ~2000 | B. A bit too FAANG-like but pretty good people. |
| Ramp | May 2019—Present | A lot lol | Python, Elixir | NYC—Remote | Founding Engineer | A++. Top-shelf, best gig of my career. |
Cities
| City | Duration | Why? |
|---|---|---|
| Washington DC area | 1986-2005 | Raised here! |
| Providence, RI | 2005-2010 | College! |
| San Francisco, CA | 2010-2013 | First jobs out of college! |
| Austin, Texas | Two months in 2013 | Was depressed, desperate, and nearly quit tech. |
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 2013-2014 | Threw myself into a life tornado in light of ☝️, chased a dream. |
| New York, NY | 2015-2021 | Job took me here, stayed. |
| San Francisco, CA | 2022-Present | Ill-fated relationship choices. |