I decide to create this space in order to expose some of my thoughts about several topics I'm interested in (software and finances mainly), to share my vision and my knowledge, because all we have something to share with the world

My name is Oziel Martínez, "Rea" for my buddies. I'm a young software engineer with some years of experience in the web development world.

My purpose is to start sharing content and not to only consume it from another big minds out there from which I have learned a lot. As I noted previously, I have some years in web development (almost six years at the moment of writing this) however I have never been very active in the internet, but I think the moment of introducing my self to the community finally is here.

In order to get this blog up and running, I have used a great utility to generate static sites, this because I wanted to focus publishing content instead of develop all the infrastructure needed to do that, a big mistake I learned some years ago when I chose to develop my own blog from zero, in that project I did everything except post content 😂 (though I learned quite a bit from laravel along the way).

A little about me

I have always been a reserved and geek boy, since I remember I have always liked the tech and how the things woks which I think is largely thanks to my father who taught me how to use a PC

One of my favorite memories I have is when I was nine years old, and I discovered how to make a ftp connection with my xbox in order to install games from the PC to my console and feeling like a hacker boy in the process, a little achievement but, was everything for me in those times since I played a lot of video games. I remember a curious trait of me, there was not a single game didn't feel like was missing something, something to improve, something to customize more in order to get the experience I wanted.

When I was 14 years old I had very clear what my future should be, I wanted to be a web developer. I did not remember that until I found in my room a homework from the school in which I wrote how I would like to be in several years from that moment. It seems quite curious to me since I am not sure if at that time I already knew what it is to be a web developer 😂.

A year later it was time to enroll in high school, so I opted for a technical bachelor's degree in ICT with a focus on web programming. It was 3 years of preparing myself in which I discovered many things, I even discovered other hobbies such as psychology (again my taste for understanding the why of things but this time focused on people), and I had a small period in which I had changed my mind, and I wanted to study psychology instead of being a web developer 👀.

Today I can proudly say that I work doing what I like the most (at least most of the time).