The story so far
I used to think of technology, writing, and music as separate chapters of my life. Over time, I’ve come to see how much they share, and how my Costa Rican roots run through all of them.
I grew up in Costa Rica and found the web in the mid-1990s. I taught myself HTML and ASP Classic, then started building websites for companies when a dynamic page still felt like a small miracle.
What stayed with me was the feeling: something that existed only in my head could suddenly be useful to someone else.
Moving from Costa Rica to the United States widened my world, and the Golden Gate became a personal symbol of that crossing. I found new possibilities while keeping the language, humor, faith, and music of home close to me.
That is why I can move from a technical system to a Costa Rican legend without feeling like I’ve changed the subject. Both belong in my work.
My career moved from SQL into analytics, machine learning, and AI. Even as I kept learning, I struggled to finish my own creative projects and knew the frustration of having ideas without a clear way to make them real.
That experience is part of why I am writing TAME Your Storm. I am interested in the distance between understanding a problem and taking the next useful step.
AI gave me a new way back into building. I started with a website for TAME, then built for other ideas and other people. The recurring pieces became vaWebsites, the platform behind this site and the work at VirtuAmerica.
Working faster made me think more carefully about what I was trying to accomplish. ELEV8 grew from that concern: I wanted AI to help me explore better possibilities while staying true to the person and purpose behind the work.
Faith and science both matter to me, and I want to stay open to questions that might change my mind. Writing helps me work through those questions, while music gives me a way to express things that reach us differently when they are sung.
I am still figuring out who I am becoming. I hope the work helps someone recognize a possibility in their own life and gives them a way to act on it.
The story continues in the work