About#

Writing, systems, and different forms of architecture#

I work across fiction, essays, software architecture, advisory work, and the study of building architecture.

Although these fields may appear separate, they are connected by a common interest: how structures are created, how they evolve, and how they shape what people can do.

Some structures are made of code. Others are made of rules, institutions, spaces, habits, or stories. Each creates possibilities and constraints. Each carries decisions made by people who may no longer be present. And each affects the lives of those who must inhabit it.

This website is where those different parts of my work meet.

Fiction#

I write fiction in Spanish and English.

My stories tend to place people inside realities larger than themselves: families, communities, armies, institutions, inherited histories, and moral arrangements that existed before the characters arrived.

I am interested in what people do within those structures, but also in the moments when they begin to imagine that another path might be possible. Choice, responsibility, belonging, loyalty, power, and the consequences of human decisions repeatedly appear in my work.

I do not see fiction as a disguised way of presenting an argument. A novel must first be alive as a novel, through its people, places, conflicts, uncertainties, and emotional truths. But stories can explore realities that cannot always be reduced to a thesis. They allow us to experience different possibilities before deciding what they mean.

I began publishing fiction more than a decade ago and later returned to it with a new body of work, including novels set in different historical periods, cultures, and narrative worlds.

Essays#

I also write essays about systems, institutions, human behaviour, and the stories organizations and societies tell about themselves.

Many begin with observations drawn from software and organizational life, but their concerns extend beyond technology. They examine how systems accumulate history, how local decisions produce consequences elsewhere, how legitimacy is formed, and why structures often continue operating after the reasons for their original design have disappeared.

Alongside these systems essays, I write more philosophical pieces concerned with knowledge, meaning, human creation, secrecy, continuity, and the ways in which people leave something of themselves in what they build.

The two bodies of work approach related questions from different directions: one examines structures, behaviour, and accumulated decisions; the other looks more directly at experience, interpretation, and meaning.

Software and advisory work#

I have worked in software development for more than two decades, primarily as a software architect and senior technical professional.

During that time, I have participated in the design, construction, transformation, and maintenance of systems at different stages of maturity. This has meant working not only with technology, but also with the organizations surrounding it: their decision-making processes, inherited practices, internal boundaries, and constraints.

Software systems are never purely technical. They embody assumptions about how work should happen, who has authority, what must remain stable, and which kinds of change are considered acceptable.

That experience strongly informs my essays and, less directly, my fiction. It has taught me to look for the less visible structures beneath events: the incentives, dependencies, compromises, and earlier decisions that make present outcomes possible.

I also work selectively with small and medium-sized technology organizations that need to understand their development systems more clearly. My advisory work is primarily diagnostic: identifying where software, process, governance, and decision-making are producing friction, risk, or structural confusion before deciding what should change.

Building architecture#

I am also studying architecture.

To me, this is not a departure from software or writing, but another way of exploring many of the same questions through physical space.

Buildings organize movement, visibility, privacy, encounter, separation, and use. They shape human behaviour without issuing instructions, and they preserve decisions long after the moment in which those decisions were made.

Architecture also brings intention into contact with material reality. Materials have weight. Spaces have limits. Light enters from somewhere. Every design decision must eventually meet a physical world that cannot be persuaded by rhetoric.

Studying architecture has given me another language through which to think about structure, proportion, inhabitation, and the distance between design and lived experience.

One field, several forms#

I do not consider these activities separate identities that must remain in different compartments.

Writing fiction, examining institutions, designing software, advising organizations, and studying physical architecture all require looking closely at what exists, understanding the forces holding it together, and considering what else might be possible.

Sometimes that work becomes a novel. Sometimes it becomes an essay, a technical decision, a diagnostic map, or a design exercise.

This site brings those different results together.