Posts tagged job

In May 2026, after almost 10 years at RubiconMD, I was laid off along with everyone else in the Spain section.

It didn’t feel great, to be honest, but I’m proud of everything we accomplished there, from Series B and the rushed feature development days to two acquisitions and full corporate transformation. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity I was given by the team back in 2016, all the awesome people I worked with and now count as friends, and everything I’ve learned along the way.

So, I took a short break, and now I’m back on the job market: looking for senior+ roles in platform engineering, technical leadership or good old hands-on development, full-time or contract, fully remote (and happy to travel). If that sounds like something you need, my resumé is here.

Coming back to the market in 2026 means facing the elephant in the room: AI. The same tools that are turning hiring for people like me upside down are the ones I’ve had to fully embrace to keep going. Turns out, I’m actually enjoying it.

A day with an agent

Back in December 2024 I wrote that I needed to review the resumé content and links, and that I definitely should write more. Then, in July 2025, I mentioned it had been my first time in a while without AI agents around, since we were heavily using them on the job. Well. Today, after mulling some ideas in my head, I sat down with the Claude Code CLI agent and, in a single session, “we”:

• wrote an AGENTS.md and a few skills, so agents know how this site works;
• fixed a pile of small template and SEO issues;
• reworked the blog: five full posts per page, a page per tag, a tag cloud, and an archive by year in the sidebar;
• cleaned up 143 messy tags (RAILS, ruby on rails and friends);
• gave the whole site a visual refresh: IBM Plex fonts, a green accent, about 80 characters per line and a 📝 favicon;
• rescued my 31 old CookiesHQ posts: the company’s blog went offline in 2025, but the Internet Archive kept every single article, so the links work again;
• fixed my resumé (wrong dates, a typo, a broken separator) and gave it a “Save as PDF” button;
• rewrote the About page so it actually says what I do, and that I’m looking;
• and split the CSS into tidy files, checking pixel by pixel that nothing changed.

Every one of those would have taken me an evening or a weekend on my own, and realistically most of them would have stayed on the “someday” list forever. They’ve been sitting there for years.

It wasn’t magic, and it wasn’t me just pressing a button either. I still reviewed every change, said no to some suggestions, rewrote bits myself and made the calls. But the distance between “I should really fix that” and “done” has never been shorter.

So, into the future. Allons-y!

If you’re hiring, drop me a line.

From January 2014 to the summer of 2016 I worked remotely from Seville for CookiesHQ, a small Ruby on Rails agency in Bristol founded by Nic and Nathalie Alpi. It was my first remote job for a company abroad, and I was their only remote worker at the time.

Besides building client projects, from startup MVPs to bespoke CRMs, I was one of the regular writers on the company’s technical blog: 31 posts between January 2014 and July 2016, two of them featured in Ruby Weekly (#209 and #212).

In October 2021 CookiesHQ was acquired by one of its clients, Amba Health and Care, and the company was dissolved in May 2023. The website stayed up, unmaintained, for a couple more years, until it went offline in the summer of 2025 and took the blog with it. For each article I used to publish a short post here pointing to it, and all of those turned into dead links. Luckily, the Internet Archive kept a copy of every one of them, so those posts now point to the archived copies instead. Now with agents, compiling the links to the archive is easy peasy and the fix takes almost no time. What a time to be a live.

I learned a lot from Nic, Nathalie, Rob, Gemma, Dennis and all the clients I collaborated with; the foundations of my “Rails persona” was shaped by those years!! :D Going back through these posts with the help of AI agents and bringing them back has been a trip down memory lane I’ll cherish <3

Browse all 31 CookiesHQ posts, from January 2014 to July 2016.

This week I’ve started working for RubiconMD, an eHealth company based in New York! I’m really excited since the project is something that I believe helps people in such complicated moments as going to the doctor’s.

Also, since the time difference between Seville and New York is 5-6 hours, this will require more self sufficiency when developing new features or fixing bugs, I know it might be a bit hard in the beginning, but I can’t wait to give the best of me and get better at what I do.

Also the technologies in use and the technical challenges ahead will help me learn a lot of new things and grow as a dev. And soon, I’ll be going to NYC to meet the team!

So, interesting times ahead! Wish me luck!