Thanks for visiting! I love to have fun and build things.

I'm Carmen, a CTO who builds products and spends a lot of time thinking about how developers actually use them.

A big chunk of my work is helping teams answer a deceptively small question: what should be automated, and what should stay in users' hands?

I tend to care most about simple solutions, understandable systems, and technology people can trust. Useful beats impressive. Human beats opaque.

Before this chapter, I spent years in developer education and community building through conferences, workshops, streams, and side quests like badwebsite.club. Helping people get unstuck is still one of my favourite thingoes.

If you're building developer-facing products or trying to make a complex system feel a bit more human, I'm always happy to chat.

Some little thingoes I've been involved with: