About me

I’m Oscar, nice to (sort of) meet you. If you’re reading this, chances are that you came here looking for my resume.

Ok, recruiters happy. Let me introduce myself:

First memories

I was never the type of guy you might expect in IT.

Sure, I’ve always liked computers, and I did play videogames growing up (long-live HL, QII, JK:JO, and JK:JA), but that’s all there’s to it.

No early programming, no robotics… nothing out of the ordinary (I’d say).

My father, who works as a draughtsman, got our first computer when I was about 6, and I just got used to playing around with it, no big deal.

Back to college

As a teenager I leaned into sports (running, swimming, powerlifting, weightlifting, judo), reading, and entrepreneurship. I’ve always loved medical science, so not knowing where to head my life, I decided to study human nutrition and dietetics (formally) and sports science (on my own). I did enjoy pure sciences (formal, physical and life sciences), and I learned quite a lot about the human body up to 2nd college year. From there, things started to go south, all subjects were applied sciences, and conflict of interests and lack of evidence were all over the place.

About that time, I was chosen as Head of the Scientific Commitee for Spain’s college network. As I became really used to reading scientific papers, and I had developed quite a reputation for being ruthless with any professor who wasn’t providing up-to-date, evidence-based information (I was and I am a supporter of EBM).

My purpose was to ensure the accuracy of what was being taught all over the country. And I did so, for a while. It was fun, we got to challenge false claims and poor educational materials. That lasted about half a year, then I realized I wouldn’t be able to really change how things worked (fyi, Spain health organism establishing nutritional guidelines and academic curriculum is sponsored by big corporations whose purpose is not to provide a better education for future health professionals, but rather have partners in crime).

Dropping out

This was the last nail in the coffin. I totally disengaged from college and quit my role.

During the time, though, I had started to coach people I met traveling as head of the commitee. I associated with a pharmacist, a certified trainer (which I wasn’t), a psychologist and an aspiring architect with nice graphical design skills (which happened to be my gf back then).

I also started writing scientific dissemination work for Spain’s biggest health blog at the moment.

So in order to grow our online business, I figured out the best way forward was to have a strong online presence, hence I took on the website SEO and did what I was already doing as an external collaborator for the blog, write scientific dissemination, but keeping an eye on inbound marketing strategies, lead generation, RevOps and SEO specifically.

Again, didn’t work out.

I was too inexperienced in running a business and everything collapsed once we got some traction and couldn’t scale.

Bouncing around

I wasn’t going back to college (even if I kept doing my exams and paying my fees, purely out of fear).

As I knew SEO, marketing, and physical sciences I tried a myriad of things (freelance work for private clinics, dropshipping health related products, both using pure inbound and paid ads, private in-person coaching sessions…). None of them were satisfying nor lucrative. I even studied finance and administration (bc it was a safe bet, or so I thought).

My gf broke up with me (after around 8 years of relationship).

I was living day-to-day, I remember going to buy groceries and returning some of them until I could afford the essentials.

Wasn’t the best time I’ve had. But I stumbled upon some life lessons I really (and unknowingly) needed.

I also met my wife, who’s been one of the strongest drivers (if not the strongest) to push forward since then.

Going forward

I learnt to trust myself and to trust the process, to do what I liked and to be patient.

That led me back to the starting point, computers.

I’m eternally grateful for all the high-quality, free, learning materials out there. And if you’re a junior reading this or want to break into IT, please, check Harvard CS courses (CS50x, CS50P, CS50SQL).

Eventually I started to get back on track and to feel I can do what I like, get paid for it and enjoy life together with my loved ones.