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Things I’ve built and keep running. Mostly small, self-contained, and born out of wanting something that didn’t exist yet. 🏺 Vase Generator Parametric vessel studio Generate vases, bowls and planters from math — superformula cross-sections, twists, flutes and noise — with a live 3D preview and one-click print-ready STL export. 🎭 Madrid Ocio Madrid's cultural agenda, made browsable A…
Welcome to my personal corner of the internet. I’m Alberto Gragera, an engineering manager and builder. This is where I write about engineering management, building teams, technology, and whatever else I find worth sharing. I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at RevenueCat , based in Madrid, where I lead the Data Insights team behind the client-side analytics, experimentation and…
Remote is here to stay , there is no question about that. It opens the market for people that for any given reason can not or don’t want to move to a particular location, and it enables companies to access talent worldwide. 1Commutes are generally terrible, specially in areas where most of the jobs are, and folks want to spend that time doing other things. Offices can be productivity sinks,…
June 1st was my last day at WhatsApp. After roughly nine months I decided to leave the company and find new challenges. Despite being a world-class organization where I had the chance to work with incredibly talented individuals, there were some things that were not the right fit for me: Relocation to London: I had to relocate to the UK for tax purposes in the middle of a global pandemic. Then the…
How I prepared for the interviews at Facebook and Google and got the offers.
I worked at a pretty big social network in Spain from 2009 to 2013. Tuenti peaked at roughly 16 million users and 25 billion page views a month, which was pretty insane back in the day. We made it to the Google Zeitgeist for a couple of years, and in 2011 it was estimated that 15% of the internet traffic of Spain was through Tuenti, more than Google and Facebook combined.
Hi! I am Alberto Gragera, an engineering manager based in Zurich currently working at Google. Before Google I worked at WhatsApp, Karumi (a small consultancy company that I co-founded) and Tuenti (the biggest Spanish social network ever). I started coding at 12, building forums and websites for fun, and never stopped. I care deeply about how teams work — the dynamics, the culture, the systems that…