El equipo que nadie ve
The team nobody sees: what it takes to be the technical team behind agencies in the United States, from Central America.
Porteño, then capitalino, then everywhere.
- From
- Puerto Barrios, Izabal
- Based in
- Guatemala City, UTC−6
- Building since
- 2008
- Team
- Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador
- Languages
- Spanish, English, a little Italian
- Countries visited
- 18, on four continents
- WordPress.org
- hansengine
Puerto Barrios is a port, so this is a cargo manifest.
- 1990 Puerto Barrios
Born in a port town on Guatemala’s Caribbean coast. Wrote my first HTML at Colegio Itzagual.
- 2001 Guatemala City
Moved to the capital. I’ve called myself porteño ever since.
- 2008 Guatemala City
A junior developer job asked for WordPress. I learned it from a tutorial in English and passed the test.
- 2011 Valencia, Spain
Campus Party, my first trip abroad. Around then I was building microsites for TV shows at FOX Channels.
- 2014 Guatemala
Started Witlab as a company of one. WordPress sites first, then automations, mostly for real estate.
- 2016 Pereira, Colombia
Left my job to run Witlab full time. Spent part of that year volunteering with kids in Pereira.
- 2020 Guatemala
The pandemic nearly took Witlab down. One client in the United States kept it standing.
- 2022 Costa Rica · New York
Led a development team for a company in Costa Rica, then built one from scratch for an agency in New York.
- Now Guatemala · Honduras · Ecuador
Lead Developer at NinjaSource, with a team across three countries.