I’m Nicolás Forero, an AI product engineer in Bogotá. Above the city, the páramo catches fog and turns it into the water we drink. I build software that does that with the small facts of a day.
The project I run my own days on
It turns the small facts of my days, meals, training, money and a weight, into a morning brief and a weekly review. I built it to learn to run real infrastructure, and to ship AI features I would trust with my own health and money.
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Move across the drawing, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to run through a week.
Three drawers are the pillars: Health, Coaching and Finance. I write the left half of each; the agent may only write the right half.
The clock trips the agent every day at 06:30, and on Saturdays at 17:00 for the weekly review and meal-prep plan.
The carriage on the rail is the agent. It reads the drawers and carries one card, the brief, to the outbox. It can’t reach anything else.
The phone is the dashboard: a week strip and one card per pillar, lit when the brief arrives.
Senior software engineer at MyEngene, since 2023
MyEngene turns a DNA sample into a report: which medicines should work normally, which need a different dose, and which carry raised risk. I work across its apps, API and database. I also brought coding agents into how we build it, with a person reviewing every change and every clinical call signed off by people.
Read the case study2023–2024
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Échele Cabeza, software engineer
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Kiwibot, frontend software engineer
A live map of indoor robot navigation drawn on canvas, and the sign-in behind it.
2021–2022
Cultivando Futuro, full-stack software engineer
Reports on social conditions in the dry region of Honduras, and mentoring junior developers toward their first jobs.
2021
Higo, frontend engineer
Payment scheduling and a user dashboard for a fintech platform.
2020–2021
Houm, frontend software engineer
Landing pages, a tool for sales consultants, and payment screens for tenants, in real estate.
2020
1doc3, junior full-stack developer
Real-time chat and video calls between doctors and patients.
2019
Kiwibot, junior frontend developer
An internal console for delivery-robot logistics, and my first React in production.
I’m a senior software engineer, and for more than six years I’ve built frontends and full-stack products for teams in robotics, health, fintech, real estate and social impact. What I like most is understanding a problem, and the people who have it, before building anything for them.
Now I build with AI: agents that do real work inside limits I can explain. brain is where I test that on my own life first.
Away from work I play guitar and piano and sing, and I listen to anything from melodic techno to jazz, blues and reggae. I read the Stoics, I’m close to my family, and I get out into Colombia’s mountains whenever I can.
The principles under everything I make, at work and in brain.
Understand first
I start with the problem and the people who have it. Code comes after I can explain both in plain words.
Simple until proven otherwise
Every piece has to earn its place. brain runs on files and one small server because nothing bigger was needed yet.
Honest numbers
I quote only what I measured, with the date I measured it. When I couldn’t measure something, I say so.
AI inside limits I can explain
Agents do real work, and the judgment calls stay with people. Every guardrail I keep, I can tell you why it’s there.
Behind this section: Guatavita, an hour from Bogotá. The lagoon, a frailejón in flower, and sunset from the town. Photos by me.
I take on a small number of projects alongside my job. Two kinds:
A frontend or full-stack build
A product to build or rebuild in React, Next.js and TypeScript, by someone who cares how it feels to use.
AI in your engineering team
Getting your team to use coding agents well: where they help, where they need a guardrail, and how to tell the difference.
Beside this section: a páramo flower, from Guatavita. Photo by me.
