Welcome to my homepage! I'm a native of Miami, FL and a graduate of Northwestern University where I studied economics, psychology, and film. I currently live in San Francisco and work as a software engineer at Eventbrite.
I'm an internet junkie and self-taught computer programmer. My first programming project, at the age of 12, was hacking Duke Nukem 3D in order to make my arsenal more powerful. I then transitioned to more worthwhile projects like building websites for friends and family and selling custom made PCs. In college my roommate and I founded an online textbook reseller called NUsed Books which gave us 100% return on investment over the time we operated it.
After graduation I moved to LA and started my career as a product manager at Buzzmedia. Despite my lack of formal training, I found myself assuming the role of engineer on more and more of my projects. It soon became clear what my true calling was and I transitioned to engineering full-time. I went on to become Buzzmedia's lead ad tech engineer and worked on building an innovative ad-serving platform.
I susequently moved north from LA to SF and landed at Eventbrite, which is an amazing company. I currently build tools for event organizers and am getting better with Python every day. My forte, however, is JavaScript. It's been proving itself lately as a versatile all-purpose language and I'm interested in how it can be used to program the whole web stack. On the side I've been working on a pure JavaScript CMS using Node.js and MongoDB.
Aside from computers, I enjoy photography, travel (especially road trips), film, and music. SF is also turning me into quite a foodie. You can check out my online photography portfolio, and some short films I worked on, at photo.terenz.io. Feel free to get in touch with me about anything mentioned here! Thanks for visiting...