My name is Mario. I love learning, tinkering with systems, and trying to explain them! I'm a big fan of adventures around nature, so Munich is an awesome place to live!
Currently, I work for Lyft as a backend engineer in the Routing team. Other noteworthy projects of mine include:
Tremor
Mentee, 2021 – 2022
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A high-performance Event Processing System. I was among the first to write a plugin system in Rust.
RSpotify
Maintainer, 2020 - 2023
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The most popular Rust wrapper for Spotify’s API. I redesigned it, enhancing ergnonomics and safety.
NullDeref
Founder, 2021 – Present
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This site itself! It’s open source and made with Hugo. You don’t truly understand something unless you can explain it to others :)
Vidify
Founder, 2019 – 2022
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An app to reproduce music videos for the music that’s playing on your computer, in real time. Supported Desktop, and Android phones and TVs.
Maremoto Beach
Freelancer, 2020
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Transformed a bar’s menu into a mobile-first experience. This was critical for the COVID outbreak.
Equitrivia
Software Engineer, 2019
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A government-funded trivia to promote gender equality. Played over 25k times in schools.
Meme Stickers for WhatsApp
Founder, 2018 – 2019
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A very silly Android app that reached 5 million downloads. I wrote the first version and later on sold it.
If you want to contact me, just schedule a chat or use any of these links:
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Note: “Ortiz Manero” are both surnames, not middle names! It's how we go in Spain: they come from my father and mother, respectively :)Other Cool Blogs
Here are some people that inspire me:
Rafał Pastuszak: an important reminder to keep discovering yourself in life.
Michael Lynch: a big-tech engineer turned to running cool small businesses.
Matt Lakeman: the definition of pure adventure.
Patrick McKenzie: endless knowledge about the internet and businesses.
Gwern: homemade experimentation and impeccable writing combined.
Nicolas Bouliane: the legend behind allaboutberlin.com, who shares his precious life learnings.