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About Jonathan

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Where is Jonathan?

  • Medellin Colombia (usually)
  • Austin Texas, USA (frequently)
  • New York City, USA (often)

Fun!

Drawing

I am inspired by artists like M.C. Escher

Music

I love music, especially playing blues piano.

Maker-spaces

I enjoy building things using creative tools, like CNC routers, laser-cutters, and computer programming.

Sports

  • Squash - I love squash, and am always looking to play.
  • Pádel - Padel is a game which is similar to tennis & squash. It's usually played with 4 people.

Outdoor activities

  • Hiking - I live near the jungle, and love to explore it with my dogs Coco & Cleo
  • Swimming & SCUBA diving - I love being IN the water, and UNDER the water.
  • Bike-riding - "Bike life is the right life"

Work

  • Founder / Solution engineer at Cambria Labs.
    • We build product prototypes using sustainable materials.

Passionate about

  • Open-source
  • Community maker-spaces
  • Quality
  • Agile product innovation
    • Pair-programming / pair-collaborating
    • Iterating
    • Retrospectives
    • Partner regularly with Clients
    • Test-driven development
  • Ecological Sustainability
    • Minimize plastic consumption and creation
    • Recycling
    • Pick up trash & litter as a daily habit
    • Clean up & improve our local communities
  • Improving the well-being of animals
    • Dog-friendly environments
  • Achieving flow-state
  • Community sports
  • Writing in a journal

Principles & Values

  • Health & Family > Work
  • Quality > Speed
  • Fuck-Yes or Fuck-No (no Fuck-medium)
  • Positive mental-attitude

Wisdom

  • We become what we think about (Earl Nightingale)

Interesting ideas

  • Build "bicycles for the mind"

People who inspire me

Languages

  • I speak English and Spanish fluently
  • I know some Mandarin Chinese and Turkish (used to live in both places)