About me

I'm Antonio. I'm a software engineer, designer, and product builder. I enjoy doing all 3 of them and I feel most comfortable when I am doing all 3 of them. I'm also a full-time comedian, I cook a lot, and on a normal weekend you'll find me roasting coffee, experimenting with koji and other ferments, and gallivanting in Dolores Park.

I'm based in San Francisco, though I was born in Spain and grew up in Madrid, Barcelona, and Quito, Ecuador.

I'm currently cofounder & CEO of bem. Before, I founded and led design, engineering, and product at Silo, a platform for food growers and distributors to run their business on.

Before that, I built Kite, an AI assistant for programmers acquired by Affirm, being its first engineering hire. Before Kite, I founded a health-tech company in Europe that was acquired by Kyowa Kirin, and worked on industrial design and strategy projects for clients like Paypal and Samsung.

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Why this blog? What is this?

I'm trying to write more. I built my first website when I was 9, a Harry Potter fan club, and I had blogs and wrote a lot from age 9 to 18. I haven't held a publication or personal blog since then. I always have ideas to write about, so I figured let's do it.

Most of the time I will write about technology, company building, investing, and design, but the occasional food/fermentation/coffee/history post will slip in. There are too many things on Earth to just write about one.