Juan's blog
A human who writes in natural and programming languages
Currently living in Argentina and working as an iOS/watchOS engineer at Runna (acquired by Strava).
This is my little corner of the internet. My tiny garden. I write about whatever inspires or interests me, usually in the form of blog posts.
Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.
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Writing
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Simulations
§ 02
Work
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2024 → now
Senior Engineer II · Runna (acquired by Strava)
The Swift side of a personalized running coach: watchOS app, widgets, Live Activities and HealthKit.
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2022 → 2024
Senior iOS Engineer & Technical Scrum Master · PayPal (Venmo)
Built Venmo's Teen Account from its inception, then drove its planning as Technical Scrum Master.
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2021 → 2022
Senior iOS Engineer · Moen
iOS app to pair and control Flo and Moen smart water devices.
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2020 → 2021
iOS Engineer · IncluIT
Client apps across VoIP, banking, insurance and health, including a tech lead role.
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2019 → 2020
Mobile Developer · OZ Digital Consulting
Xamarin.Forms app for construction companies to manage property listings.
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2018 → 2019
Mobile Developer · DGENIX
International Xamarin projects and contributions to MvvmCross open source.
§ 03
Reading
Pages torn from whatever I'm reading. All my highlights are collected on my Readwise account, and you can get them in your inbox by joining my newsletter. A summarized version of my highlights lives in my library.
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Statistics produce many observations that appear to beg for causal explanations but do not lend themselves to such explanations. Many facts of the world are due to chance, including accidents of sampling. Causal explanations of chance events are inevitably wrong.
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De la Argentina, los recuerdos eran vívidos: «Me acuerdo de que la pasé muy bien de verdad. Pero sobre todo me acuerdo de que conocí a Maradona. Diego es supertalentoso, lo amo totalmente. No tengo ningún resentimiento inglés con respecto a la mano de Dios ni nada. Es un genio».
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You work not as an evangelist, expecting miracles, but as a scientist, testing and adjusting and testing again. Experimenting and building on the results. Faith is rewarded, perhaps even more than talent or ability. After all, how can we offer the art what it needs without blind trust? We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.