Noe Nieto

Engineering résumé

Senior software engineer, 25 years across the stack — long enough to have learnt the value of boring, stable software doing its job correctly for 15 years or more. In the agentic-AI era, my value is engineering rigor: validating and shaping software that serves users without harming them. I consult and teach on the side. 100% remote.

Now

Senior Software Developer at Deloitte, since August 2021 and actively working with the International Academy of Holokinetic Psychology to promote the study of Unitary Perception around the world. Teaching at the Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali since January 2025. Occasionally running small gigs as NNieto Consulting on the side.

My tool belt

I love technology, but I have preferences (who doesn't?). Lately, I've been amazed how many problems can be solved with Linux + Python + SQLite — the small, sharp stack that handles most things without ceremony. But I'm hopelessly curious, so the toolkit keeps growing.

Work style

  • 100% remote, permanently. Sorry, I'm not relocating. Baja California is my operations base.
  • Day job first. Deloitte gets my full-time attention. Consulting, teaching, and Holokinesis happen in my own time.
  • Async-friendly. For me, working async means I deeply value everybody's time and space. I love sitting down in my office to write things down and document decisions — and I'm the first to admit that a quick call can save hours of typing and guessing. Long calls are super useful for discussing plans, explaining complex topics, and reaching consensus. Back-to-back meetings are 98% wasteful. On-site visits can be incredibly productive when well-coordinated, terribly wasteful when they're not.
  • Engineering culture required. Being a grown-up doesn't automatically come with age. Code reviews, tests, and CI/CD are excellent tools, but their complexity can distract from the business objective. As engineers, we love to think our decisions are unbiased — they aren't, though that isn't intrinsically good or bad. Across my career I've watched a lot of projects fail, and the root causes are rarely scientific, engineering, or economic; they're biased decisions by people who wouldn't accept they had a bad idea. My ideal environment: one where professionals are free to suggest improvements and changes, supportive enough to identify bad ideas quickly, and full of people who can admit when they're wrong and want to learn.
  • User-value first. Software exists to serve the people who use it — and to minimize harm to them. That's a P0 I won't trade away. I won't work on projects that build or enable weapons, sell illegal drugs (such as alcohol), promote unethical services, or do harm to society, families, animals, or the environment.

If you're still here, thank you — it means you're still interested.

The timeline below tracks four parallel tracks of my career. Each "commit" is a role or milestone, tagged with the branch it belongs to.

I. Career timeline

Day job NNieto Consulting Holokinesis Teaching

  1. 3c4d5e6 teaching

    Profesor interino — Lenguajes y Autómatas I · Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali

    Formal languages and automata theory.

  2. 2b3c4d5 teaching

    Profesor interino — Fundamentos de Ingeniería de Software & Arquitectura de Computadoras · Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali

    Software Engineering Fundamentals and Computer Architecture 101.

  3. 1a2b3c4 teaching

    Profesor interino — Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios · Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali

    Service-oriented architecture course for undergraduate systems-engineering students.

  4. f2a3b4c main

    Senior Consultant · Deloitte

    Test Automation and Quality Engineering

    • Python
    • Linux
    • Jenkins
    • Android
    • Kotlin
  5. e1f2a3b main

    Backend engineer · Kimetrics

    Developed data pipelines for the company's flagship BI engine for the retail industry

    • Django
    • ScraPY
    • OpenPyxl
    • Pandas
    • AWS RDS
    • AWS ECS
    • Postgres
    • Docker
    • Knime
  6. d0e1f2a main

    Web Developer (Librem One) · Purism SPC

    Delivered seamless payment and onboarding integration of a subscription-based account system for the Liberty Deckhost Plan for LibremOne

    • WordPress
    • Woocommerce
    • Django
    • Bash
    • Vagrant
    • Zola
    • Python
  7. c9d0e1f main

    Backend Engineer · Social Reality / SRAX

    Co-led the complete overhaul of the onboarding process of the mission-critical ad-exchange: database schemas and stored procedures were properly engineered and unit-tested to replace manual onboarding process. New Ad exchanges were integrated and to decrease deployment friction, wrote the deploy tooling the C++ team. Developer only neede to push a commit to deploy. Years before github actions were published!

    • PHP
    • CodeIgniter
    • C++
    • LAMP
    • PHPUnit
    • New Relic
  8. b8c9d0e main

    Developer & Sysadmin · Valutech Outsourcing (now Clover Wireless)

    First data-center gig: SQL Server in High Availability needed terabyte-scale backups. Built a high-speed solution for the backup to AWS S3 plus a few internal tools.

    • SQL Server
    • IIS
    • Linux
    • Active Directory
    • AWS S3
    • RabbitMQ
    • Boto
    • Python
    • Bash
    • Git
  9. a7b8c9d holokinesis

    Chief Technology Officer · International Academy of Holokinetic Psychology

    Really! I've become the Chief Tecnology Officer for the AIPH! After almost 20 years of collaboration I now define the roadmap for all our technologies needed and oversee the implementation!

  10. f6a1b2c consulting

    Full-stack developer · HomeViva

    Helped build a LatAm construction-tech startup: migrated the stack from Plone to Grok (A python web framework) and then to a REST Pyramid/SQLAlchemy backend + Angular 1.x frontend, and ran the AWS Linux fleet on the side.

    • Python
    • Pyramid
    • Angular.js
    • AWS
  11. e5f6a1b holokinesis

    Editorial lead · Holokinesis Libros

    Took on responsibility for the Holokinesis book publishing line. Still going.

  12. d4e5f6a main

    Full stack developer · iServices de México

    Plone-based LCMS. High Availability architecture behind: scaling, integration, break-fix.

    • Plone
    • Python
    • ZODB
    • PostgreSQL
    • RelStorage
    • HAProxy
    • Varnish
  13. c3d4e5f main

    Data Acquisition Engineer · Honeywell Aerospace de México

    DA specialist for pressure, temperature, vibration and Video surveillance.

    • Linux
    • Python
    • PHP
    • GStreamer
    • Electronics
    • Data Acquisition
    • Instrumentation
  14. b2c3d4e main

    Multiplayer programmer · Gameloft

    Brief but fun: shipped multiplayer server patches and device-specific adaptations for J2ME mobile titles.

    • C++
    • Apache
    • J2ME
  15. a1b2c3d consulting

    Founder, freelance developer · NNieto Consulting Services

    Started as a university side gig and somehow outlived every full-time job since — PHP, Plone, Django, WordPress, the occasional PIC microcontroller.

    • PHP
    • Python
    • Plone
    • Django
    • WordPress
    • Linux
    • AWS

II. Education & certifications

  1. Google Summer of Code — DEVSIM

    Google Summer of Code

    Extended DEVSIM TCAD to simulate solar cells. Built on the M.Eng thesis; funded by Google.

  2. M.Eng. — Solar cell simulation

    UABC, Instituto de Ingeniería

    Thesis: design effects on crystalline-Si solar cells via Silvaco TCAD. Led directly into GSoC 2018.

  3. Certified SCRUM Master

    International SCRUM Institute

    Authorized Certification ID 79778815187513 (lifetime).

  4. B.Sc. Electronics Engineering

    Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla

    Thesis: a TCP/IP video surveillance system built entirely on F/OSS — Linux, Python, Supervisord, GStreamer.

  5. Computer Programmer Technician (Associate)

    UPAEP Puebla

    Basic algorithms in C, Basic, and Pascal.

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