Juan Pedro Pereyra

Early days. When I was a child playing was all about using imagination to create a fantastic world built out of the inner pieces of my toys, everything could be disassembled to create something better, unique, fun. Thanks mamá y papá for coping with all that.

The geek teen.At some point I convinced myself I wanted to be a pilot, I spent countless hours on the computer building virtual planes and flying them, learning from other virtual pilots and I even flew regularly for an online virtual airline – does this count as a first job?.

Another obsession was hi-fi audio, I learnt to design high end speaker systems from scratch, mounted an audio lab in my bedroom, all made of spare parts and second hand speakers. The logical next step was analog electronics, I built three discrete amplifiers, one of which had a pretty complex –and extremely dangerous– switching power supply, a 2 channel 100 Watt RMS MOSFET discrete car amp, just crazy.

But I think that by far the obsession that has better paid off over time has been with Linux/Unix. The first thing I did my first week in colleage was to head to the Lab and ask how I could get some spare computers to setup a Beowulf cluster, that should paint the picture pretty well. And I went to the Lab because I didn't have enough computer power at home at the time to build any meaningful cluster.

The software engineer.Software engineering was always there, lurking in the back of my mind but it wasn't until late in college when I started getting really serious about it. It is very easy in the software world, specially in Argentina, to loose focus from good engineering towards rent-paying, crappy jobs. Sorry SAP Analysts, Oracle Consultants, PMP®s out there, it is sad but true, you have given up on engineering.

Luckily I had the chance to cross paths with a lot of smart people, some a bit crazy, some others just out of this world. Somehow I managed to "just know" that there was much more to this amazing profession than Enterprise Java Beans, XML transformations, Microsoft whatevers.

Globant. It does deserve its own chapter. Globant has given me a lot and I have given Globant a lot back, like old friends that stopped doing the math ages ago I just know it has been and still is an amazing place to work.

The end. 2500 chars is way to short :).