LOG 01 · DEPARTURE10.46°N 84.70°WCOSTA RICA
Senior Software Engineer
Full-stack · .NET, C#, TypeScript, React · Azure & AWS
12 years in tech — from San José to Toronto.
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LOG 02 · THE CLASSROOM9.93°N 84.08°W2014 — 2025
Before shipping software to a whole country, I taught it — one classroom at a time.
Computer Science Teacher → Software Engineer · Costa Rica
Taught computer science in Costa Rica's public schools, then moved into the ministry's own systems: designed SEA, SIRIMEP and AprendizUp, led their development and deployed them nationwide.
Took automated test coverage to 70% and improved database query performance by at least 60%.
The classroom taught me to explain a system before I build it.
LOG 03 · THE NATION LIGHTS UP9.93°N 84.08°W2019 — 2025
Three national systems for Costa Rica's Ministry of Education — every glowing node on the map is a school.
Student-assessment records for every public school in Costa Rica
National web platform where teachers across Costa Rica's public schools record their students' assessments for the school year. React + TypeScript front, ASP.NET API, Azure infrastructure — plus SEA Institucional, a Blazor WebAssembly app where school administrators manage enrollment, groups and grade reports.
Nationwide learning-achievement records, 2021–2022
The main tool teachers across the country used in the 2021 and 2022 school years to record students' achievement levels and produce their Descriptive Achievement Reports. Blazor WebAssembly, ASP.NET, Bootstrap.
Digital learning resource catalog
Curriculum-aligned catalog of digital learning resources for Costa Rican education, with a React Native mobile app and a Laravel admin behind it. React, Node.js, Sequelize, Azure MySQL.
LOG 04 · EVENING LECTURES9.93°N 84.08°W2018 — 2023
Five years across two universities, teaching the stack I was building with by day.
Computer Science Professor · Costa Rica
University instruction in Java, C#, data structures and design patterns — turning working knowledge into transferable fundamentals.
Computer Science Professor · Costa Rica
Evening lectures on Python, React, Angular and software principles for the next generation of Costa Rican engineers.
LOG 05 · THE NIGHT DESK9.93°N 84.08°W2023 →
Senior engineering for US companies — from a desk in Costa Rica, rain on the window.
Senior Software Engineer · Remote · US company
Designed notification and email systems on Azure Functions, Queue Storage and ASP.NET; full-stack work across Blazor WebAssembly and Entity Framework.
Senior Software Engineer · Costa Rica · US company
At Aya's Costa Rica branch, built SMS management on a Twilio microservice; event-driven services with AWS and RabbitMQ; React + TypeScript on the front.
LOG 06 · IN TRANSITSJO → YYZ2025
2025. New country. Same builder.
LOG 07 · ARRIVAL43.65°N 79.38°W2025 →
Still engineering for Aubrant Digital, now from Toronto — and in evening classes again, this time on the student side of the desk.
MBA — Information Systems Management (in progress) · Toronto, Canada
Back in a classroom — this time on the student side of the desk: graduate studies on how technology organizations are run, alongside full-time engineering.
Where this story was first written down
The first version of alonsougalde.com (2021–2026): Next.js and hand-written CSS Modules. Preserved exactly as it shipped — a museum piece you can still visit.
A scroll-driven 3D story from Costa Rica to Toronto
The page you are reading: Next.js, React Three Fiber and GSAP telling the whole journey as one continuous camera flight.
Also on the skyline
LOG 08 · THE WHOLE ARC9.93°N → 43.65°N2014 →
Building from Toronto. Rooted in Costa Rica.
augaldecr@gmail.com
Built with Next.js, React Three Fiber and GSAP. Content in English and Spanish. Site history: v1 (2021 — 2026)