Hi, I’m Enrique

Engineer, triathlete, and latte dad working in the Cloud Native space. I write about open source, engineering, life and the occasional overlap between building systems and endurance sport.

I Do Not Care How

I spent a good part of my career thinking about developer experience, from building command-line tooling the right way to understanding how the Cloud model has evolved. A couple of years ago, PaaS, as embodied by Cloud Foundry, captured a simple idea for applications: developers should be able to focus on what really matters, writing code. Here is my source code, Run it on the cloud for me, I do not care how. ...

August 16, 2026 · 3 min · eee

The Long Way

August 2026 At the time of writing this post, I have run around 3,000 km, cycled 9,000 km, and swum 400 km since 2022. This post is mostly a training log. I want to write it down so I don’t forget what the numbers represent. A couple of years ago, I decided to move away from what had been my two main forms of exercise for years: running and lifting weights. Instead, I wanted to make use of what was available around me, which meant cycling and swimming. ...

August 8, 2026 · 5 min · eee

Five years later

March 2026 The last post on this site is from 2020. A few things have changed since then. I stopped writing because life got loud. My children were born, and the years that followed were hard—the kind of hard that reorganises your priorities without asking. You learn quickly that responsibility doesn’t wait for ideal circumstances. That period changed me more than I expected. Not just as an engineer, but as a person. Parenting demands a different kind of attention. You slow down. You develop patience you didn’t know you needed. You find out what you’re actually made of, day after day. And despite all of it, there’s nothing more rewarding than raising little humans. ...

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · eee

Project Quarks

Project Quarks March 2020 The following is a compilation of some thoughts and technical knowledge I have gathered since the inception of project Quarks back in 2018. The idea behind project Quarks is merely to containerize CF(Cloud Foundry) in a native container application approach. If you are familiar with CF or Kubernetes, the following might be of your interest. Concepts Kubernetes is the tool of choice in the Cloud Industry for deploying platforms, see k8s. ...

March 10, 2020 · 9 min · eee