// welcome

Hi, I'm Marco.

I build  

This is my little corner of the internet — home base for the projects I build, break, and (eventually) finish.

marco@marcojds:~

$ whoami

marco — engineer & developer

$ cat scope.txt

hardware, software, and everything in between.

$  

01Projects

I've built many things but I can't share much — mostly because I'm not allowed to.

projects.config.js
// status: still thinking what else I can share
const projects = [
  {
    name: "RocketSplit",
    status: "live",
    stack: ["Next.js", "Prisma", "PostgreSQL"],
  },
  {
    name: "Fretly",
    status: "live",
    stack: ["HTML", "CSS", "JS"],
  },
];

projects.forEach(p => share(p)); // eventually

02About

// currently

Hey, I'm Marco 👋 By day I manage massive enterprise cloud systems. By night — and most weekends — I'm usually elbow-deep in some random engineering project, a lot of which solve extremely niche problems that no one else will ever have. This site is a collection of the ones that might actually help someone else.

// where it started

I've been joining robotics competitions, hackathons, case competitions, and engineering challenges since I was a kid. I like building things just for the fun of it. I actually have a manufacturing engineering degree specializing in robotics, which is a roundabout way of saying I have no formal software degree — I just kept building more things until a lot of them needed to be made out of lines of code.

// the curiosity engine

I'm the kind of person who'll happily fall down a rabbit hole learning something completely unrelated to whatever I'm used to doing, just because it seemed interesting — especially if it gives me a new way to understand how things work. This site, and whatever ends up in the projects section, is mostly a byproduct of that.

☁️Cloud & Infra 🤖Robotics 🧠AI / ML 👁️Computer Vision 🖨️3D Printing 💻Full-Stack Dev 🍜Startups 🗣️5 languages, some pretty badly

// a few unlocked achievements

🚀

Global Finalist

NASA Space Apps Challenge

🥇

Gold Medalist

Int'l Robotics Olympiad

🍱

Co-founder & CTO

Food delivery startup, pandemic-era

💡

Champion

P&G Next, Case Competition

🍫

Champion

Mondelez iTaste, IL6S Engineering

🦉

Top 1%

Duolingo (send help)