Hey there, I'm Chema 👋

Building software, teams, and ideas.

🏗 About Me

• 💻 15+ years building software, 5+ leading teams. Still writing code daily.
• 🧱 Focus: layered architecture, modular monoliths, TDD, and AI/agentic workflows.
• 🛠 I build open-source tools used in production. Best code is often code you don't write.
• 🌱 Always learning, always sharing. Simplicity over complexity, always.

I believe in writing simple, maintainable code and collaborating on meaningful software.

🔧 Projects & Contributions

I actively maintain and contribute to:

• phel-lang: Functional Lisp that compiles to PHP.
• bashunit: Fast, expressive testing framework for Bash.

✍️ Writing & Knowledge Sharing

I write about technology, team culture, habits, and growth on my Tech Blog and Readings Blog.

📌 Latest Posts

• The Human Bottleneck — Attention is the one thing you can't scale
• Working With the Garage Door Open — Visibility is passive, signal is not