I grew up in the Valley.
I'm building what I wish existed.

I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley. Same story a lot of people down here know — you're surrounded by hardworking, resourceful people, but there's no infrastructure to turn ambition into something bigger. If you want to build a career in tech, you leave.

So I left. I went to Texas A&M, got my degree in Technology Management, and started grinding. Houston first — insurance, consulting, logistics, payments. Then I landed at Amazon, where I helped launch an AWS IoT product used by enterprise customers worldwide. After that, DoorDash — shipping features to millions of users and mentoring the next wave of engineers.

Now I'm a Founding Engineer at an AI startup, building a platform from scratch on AWS GovCloud and leading a team. I write code every day. I ship every day. I live in the tools that are changing how software gets built.

Along the way, I saw what real tech ecosystems look like. In Seattle, you can't throw a rock without hitting a hackathon, a coworking space, or someone raising a seed round. Austin is the same — meetups every week, accelerators on every corner, a culture where building things is just what people do.

The Valley has none of that. But it has everything else — the people, the hustle, the hunger. What's missing is someone to light the match.

That's why I started buildrgv. Not because it's a good business idea (though it is). Because I know what it's like to grow up here and feel like the ceiling is low. I want to rip the ceiling off.