My values

What motivates me

• Product is key. I need to believe in the product I’m building and how it can positively impact society.
• A multidisciplinary environment where, despite everyone having their own strengths, we can share our opinions in different areas like design or business.
• I value when the engineering team can interact with users and business without intermediaries.
• I love starting projects from scratch, applying the Pareto principle to quickly achieve 80% of results with 20% of effort.

What disappoints me

• Hierarchies and unnecessary bureaucracy. It overwhelms me.
• Over-engineering, spending more time on implementation than solving the actual problem, and teams that prioritize technical solutions over functional ones.

Strengths

• I excel at understanding the business and its main pain points, translating them into solutions that address real problems.
• I’m good at translating business language into code, making it more maintainable and scalable. If someone from business understood programming, they should be able to understand our code.

Areas for improvement

• Due to my multidisciplinary approach, I haven’t dedicated 100% of my time to being the best technically. Instead, I’ve also chosen to focus on areas like design, product, complex problem-solving, and communication. In other words, I may never be the best developer on the team.

My vision

I believe work is more than earning a salary. It’s about contributing to society, helping communities with their problems and helping them grow. As Rosalía says, “craft and mastery”:

José Luis Antúnez on X

I think good products can change our lives, and I would be proud to help build revolutionary products.

Lastly, one of my favorite TV commercials that summarizes my worldview quite well:

Apple - Here’s to the Crazy Ones