The 26th Chapter Starts

Hello everyone. I’m sorry to have been gone for a while; I had to move suddenly, and I had a hard time finding time for my personal projects. As it looks like I’m not going to find time soon, I’m trying to organize and automate everything I can to come back stronger than before starting next year.

Anyway, today is a special day. It’s my 26th birthday. Unbelievable that a whole year has already passed, and as I did last year, I would like to review the great anecdotes and experiences that happened within this milestone.

A Look Back

The first quarter was quite emotional; my first semester as a professor ended, and I had no plans to continue due to problems with university bureaucracy and dissatisfaction with the lack of interest from some of my students. On the other hand, the woman I lost last quarter came back for Christmas, and we connected better than ever.

My Life as a Professor

A professor's journey: from dream to reality.

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During this time, I did some awesome projects like a yearbook for my students that worked with GitHub Actions and StepCode, a programming language I invented. I implemented my first Telegram Mini App for my beloved crush and took my diagramming app, Bezier, more seriously. After thinking for weeks, I took a new position as a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence professor.

DEVLog - January

A new month starts and it’s a great time to review what I achieved last month.

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One of the random things I tried to learn during this term was sign language. I gave up, but since it helped me express myself better without speaking, maybe next year I’ll try to pick it up again.

The second quarter was full of projects. My position as a ML&AI teacher led me to design and implement more than 10 amazing projects for classification, regression, clustering, dimension reduction, and advanced topics like image and sound segmentation, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, generative models for images, text, and audio, reinforcement learning by policies and value-based, and deployment of models with Azure, Hugging Face, and Cloudflare.

DEVLog - May

It’s unbelievable that we are in June, the time has passed so quickly and it’s time to review what I did.

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This quarter was full of good memories, but something I will keep at the bottom of my heart was an invitation I received to give a talk to a group of enthusiastic entrepreneurs from all over Venezuela about the potential of generative AI and how to use it in their projects.

The third quarter started with high political tension in my country, which killed the hope of my closest group of people and me. I thought about the need for my company or any of my projects to succeed so that I would no longer worry about my future and the future of my loved ones.

The situation made me rethink my future, and the people I know did the same. Almost everyone took different paths, and my heart broke as never before. During this time, I completely disappeared from everywhere, got apart from everyone, left my position as a professor, and just focused on work and personal projects, launching at the end of the quarter IMG Processing, my most ambitious project so far, a complete SaaS for image processing.

Presenting IMG Processing

In a world of digital media, it is increasingly common to transmit information through images instead of words.

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The last quarter was almost completely destined for a trip. By October, I took my luggage and went to Mexico City and met the SignatureAPI team, my awesome companions and friends. I ate tacos, went to an F1 event, and reconnected with some expat friends I had there.

After a week, I decided I didn’t want to return to Venezuela yet, so I returned to Portugal, my second country, my second home. There I had a lot of fun over Lisbon, Caldas de Rainha, Óbidos, Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Braga, Guimaraes, and Porto.

Now I’m trying to recover from this amazing trip and thinking about the next projects to come. There are great things planned and new things that I still have no idea will happen. I think this is the best thing about life; it gives you the opportunity to take the reins and decisions of your future, and yet it is able to surprise you with unexpected events that you would have never thought about.

Let’s see what is coming next. I really would like to see you here on my blog next year!

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