My name is Mario. I love learning, tinkering, and trying to explain things! I'm a big fan of adventures and nature, so Munich is an awesome place to live.
I used to work for Lyft as a backend engineer, and I'm now giving entrepreneurship a try. You can find more of my work here:
SpeedBump
Founder, 2024
The intentionally annoying app that helps you scroll less. Like a speed bump for your phone.
Lyft
Backend Engineer, 2022 - 2024
Helped power millions of weekly rides. Part of the cancellations, partnerships, and routing teams.
Tremor
Mentee, 2021 - 2022
A high-performance Event Processing System. I was among the first to write a plugin system in Rust.
RSpotify
Maintainer, 2020 - 2023
The most popular Rust wrapper for Spotify's API. I redesigned it, enhancing ergnonomics and safety.
NullDeref
Founder, 2021 - Present
This site itself! It's open source and made with 11ty. You don't truly understand something unless you can explain it to others :)
Vidify
Founder, 2019 - 2022
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
Transformed a bar's menu into a mobile-first experience. This was critical for the COVID outbreak.
Equitrivia
Software Engineer, 2019
A government-funded trivia to promote gender equality. Played over 25k times in schools.
Meme Stickers for WhatsApp
Founder, 2018 - 2019
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:
GitHub · LinkedIn · Twitter · Mastodon · E-mail · PGP Keys
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.