30 years across enterprise IT, cloud architecture, and cybersecurity — from call centers and restaurant chains to blockchain startups to AWS and MongoDB. Now advising the most ambitious technology teams and executives on how to build technology platforms that scale, perform, and last.
Tools, platforms, and experiments. Private projects require access — reach out via LinkedIn.
Collaborative world travel tracker — colour-coded pins per traveller, wishlist vs. visited status, threaded notes per destination, trip grouping, and a life-playback mode that replays journeys chronologically. Built with React, Node.js, and MongoDB Atlas.
AI-powered Bitcoin price alert system with trading level detection (Fibonacci, swing highs/lows, pivots), P&L journal, and Web Push notifications on Android. Built on MongoDB Atlas Time Series, Node.js, and a vanilla JS service worker.
My personal development OS — a structured workflow system for advisory POCs, personal apps, and technical demos. Covers session continuity across Claude Code sessions, documentation templates, portfolio publishing, best-practices capture, and one-command machine restore. Everything in one git repo.
POC implementations, architectural reference designs, and technical decks from advisory engagements in telecom, finance, and retail — each access-gated per client.
Three years of AWS advisory work: Well-Architected patterns, serverless blueprints, security architectures, GenAI implementations, and LATAM telco transformation playbooks.
Smart home automation, IoT sensor networks, and new MongoDB Atlas Vector Search experiments are in active development. New projects published here as they ship.
I started in IT in 1994 as a technician at a call center in Costa Rica. Over the next several years I worked my way from hands-on support to running the company's data and telephony network. Learning technology under real operational pressure, with real users depending on it every day, set the foundation for everything that came after.
The next two decades took me through enterprise IT at scale: IT Manager at Grupo Britt, a multinational coffee producer and retail brand (built the first Cisco VoIP contact center in Central America and the first airport WiFi in Costa Rica), Infrastructure Manager at SYKES running 1,000+ seat data centers across 3 sites, then Director of IT at QSR International — overseeing technology for 151 restaurants across 16 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, including early self-order kiosk and digital menu board rollouts.
Then I founded RichmondLabs and built several things over six years: a blockchain platform with a crypto wallet and European financial regulatory approvals, IoT remote monitoring for distributed properties, distributed digital signage networks, and consulting across network, ERP, and MDM transformations for companies in multiple industries and countries.
After that came three years at AWS as Senior Partner Solutions Architect, partnering with LATAM telecoms on their cloud journeys, contributing to GenAI roadshows and AWS Summits, and building technical content and enablement programs at scale.
Today I'm an Advisory Solutions Architect at MongoDB, helping enterprises modernise their data architectures, adopt cloud-native and AI-enabled systems, and get real value from the MongoDB platform. I hold a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering an MSc in Business Data Science, and more certifications than I probably need — though I do genuinely enjoy earning them.
Cybersecurity is a real passion, not a credential exercise — I hold the CISSP and CEH and have spent years on both the architecture and offensive side of the discipline. Outside work I'm usually on a bike — cycling and endurance sports are how I clear my head. I live in Mexico City with my wife and our dogs who have strong opinions about when the working day should end.
30 years of opinions on data architecture, cloud security, and building things that last.
Things I've actually done — and things I'm watching closely. All of it lives on LinkedIn for now.
Long-form technical content, architectural deep-dives, and industry perspectives. In the meantime, connect on LinkedIn to follow along.
Whether you're an engineering team working on a complex data problem, a recruiter looking for someone who's genuinely done it all, or a peer who wants to talk architecture — I'm always open to interesting conversations.