About

I build software and think about systems. Sometimes I write about what I learn.

By day, I work with code, infrastructure, and the messy interface between human intention and machine execution. By night, I read too much political theory and wonder whether the tools we're building are making us more free or more predictable.

This site is a digital garden — a place where ideas are planted, tended, and occasionally allowed to wither when they turn out to be wrong. It is not a personal brand. It is not optimized for engagement. It is simply a record of thinking in public.

What I Believe

Technology is political. Every design decision encodes a value system. The "neutral" tool is a myth. What matters is whether we have the honesty to examine the assumptions baked into our systems.

Slowness is a feature. The internet rewards velocity, but the best ideas need time to germinate. I try to resist the pressure to have an opinion on everything immediately.

Privacy is non-negotiable. The business model of surveillance capitalism is corrosive to human dignity. I build tools that respect users because I believe it is possible to create value without extracting data.

Selected Experience

Most of my career has been on the boundary between software engineering and platform/infrastructure work. I have spent the last decade building production systems at companies of varying sizes, and the last few years working independently — building small tools, learning AI agents, and writing about the things I find interesting. See the CV for the full timeline and the skill matrix for a self-assessed radar.

Colophon

This site is built with Astro, TypeScript, and a small amount of vanilla CSS. The schema for every piece of content is enforced at build time with zod — the source of truth for what a "Perspective" is, for instance, lives in src/content.config.ts. The site is hosted on a Hetzner VPS I manage myself. No analytics, no trackers, no cookies. The font is Inter (loaded from Google Fonts) for body and JetBrains Mono for code; headings are set in Georgia because it is beautiful, ubiquitous, and requires zero network requests.

If you find something here useful, or wrong, or interesting, I would love to hear from you. Reach me at hello@hectorsanchez.eu.