Héctor is a systems architect turned mobile app developer. He wrote software that handles sensitive banking information, and later co-founded a mobile app development company. Héctor is a native iOS app developer, and a Java and Ruby backend developer.

Héctor has been actively promoting startups in Puerto Rico, teaming up with a group of entrepreneurs to launch the Startups of Puerto Rico initiative which helps organize Barcamps, Startup Weekends and other startup-oriented events. He also helped organize the first TEDx event in Puerto Rico.

Héctor is most at ease in front of an Xcode window (when it is not crashing on him), but he is also a skilled Java developer with a new-found love for Ruby. He is also quite comfortable with Unix, having administered a small Linux computer lab for the Physics Department at University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez.

Héctor graduated from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. He is an Engineer-in-Training and member of the San Juan Chapter and Instituto de Ingenieros de Computadora of the Colegio of Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico.

Employers

• Polsense
• EVERTEC
• Xerox
• UPR Mayagüez

Languages

• Objective-C
• Java
• Ruby