This site isn't designed for print. Read it online: https://christianecg.com/en/now/ Or the CV — as a page: https://christianecg.com/en/cv, as PDF: https://christianecg.com/Christian_Elias_Cruz_Gonzalez_eng.pdf, as plain text: https://christianecg.com/en/cv.txt

Right now

Now

Last updated: 2026-08-18

A /now page is a snapshot of what I'm focused on at this point in my life.

Availability

I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One, working in a hybrid setup in Mexico City. My focus is on products with real technical complexity: data dashboards, SaaS platforms, and real-time systems.

Working on

Building Avelor, an ecosystem of 17 CLI tools for local development, published on npm under @avelor. Current highlights:

  • mesh — local dev proxy with named services instead of ports, and failure injection without mocks
  • floo — SSH deployment agent with a GitHub Action and Homebrew tap
  • bifrost — self-hosted WebSocket tunnel relay
  • mira — uptime monitor with an automatically generated static status page

Also iterating on this site: the CV now ships in seven formats besides the PDF — RFC-style plain text, JSON Resume, a git log -p-style diff, structured logs, a real man page, and a YAML manifest — all generated from the same source data. Added a DNS TXT record as an easter egg (dig TXT cv.christianecg.com) and automated humans.txt to regenerate on every build.

Exploring

Using Claude Code as a daily driver for real development — not just for boilerplate, but for architecture decisions, refactors, and shipping features faster. Also exploring how AI agents fit into personal projects and what that changes about how I scope and build things.

Learning

  • Software architecture: patterns, design principles, and making better structural decisions in large projects
  • AI agent architectures and their integration with web applications
  • New CSS features: container queries, @layer, anchor positioning
  • Real DNS semantics (TXT records, propagation) and troff/groff, after turning the CV into a handful of curious-but-functional formats

Writing

Documenting thoughts on the frontend craft, AI tooling, and daily learnings on the blog.