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My name is Mario. I love learning, tinkering with systems, and trying to explain them! I'm a big fan of adventures and 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

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 Hugo. 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:

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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 :)

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