Hi, I'm Naz.

I grew up in the Dominican Republic, was lucky enough to get a scholarship to one of its top universities, and found that writing code felt like building small worlds from scratch. That was enough to get me started.

My first jobs were small and scattered, and I treated every one of them as a rung. The goal underneath them never changed: get good enough that a company would sponsor me to come to the United States. Year by year, role by role, I worked my way toward it.

In 2015 it paid off. I joined Rev.com, and a few years later I moved to the USA. I spent five years with the company, growing with it through a hard scaling stretch. I worked across the stack, shipped a lot, and learned what it takes to keep a system upright when the traffic is real and the margins are thin.

In 2020 I joined Google, something I'd dreamed about since I finished school, as an SRE-SWE on Maps. It was everything I'd hoped for: years alongside some of the sharpest people I've ever worked with, helping make it faster and more dependable for the millions of people who rely on it every day. In 2026 I left to build my own things.

Now I'm building toward something of my own. The mission is bigger than any job title: to leave a mark on this planet by turning what I'm good at into real value for the people who use it. I'm an early founder, heads-down on a first product and getting close to putting it into the world.

Most of what I publish here comes from the same place. I'm fascinated by the founders who did things their own way, so I started pulling the threads. Why concentration beats diversification. Why the experts are so often the last to see it. Why the people who built the future were rarely trying to. It's all in the writing.

In my off hours I play chess, working toward a Candidate Master title, and run more miles around San Francisco than is strictly reasonable.

If you're building something of your own, let's chat. 🫡

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