Digital rendering of four glowing white spheres of different sizes against a black background with a textured, patterned surface beneath.

My work in tech has moved across a lot of different contexts. I wanted to be challenged, to sit in the tension between the technical and the theoretical, the immediate and the abstract.


Vinculo

Currently under development.

An invite-only map of how people are already connected: through the projects and organizations they've shared, never through each other directly. I'm designing and building it end to end, the data model and consent layer, the force-directed graph, and the one hand-made moment where a connection traces its own path across the network and narrates how it came to exist.

It's still early, with a lot left to build. I work in the open, so you can follow the process commit by commit:

→ github.com/mTorrendell/vinculo-app

Launched the initial phase of a programming language

SOLERA

My first startup story: 2024

The problem was clear: traders were juggling multiple platforms, one for analytics, another for transactions, a third for portfolio tracking. Every context switch costs time. Solera was built to unify all into one mobile experience.

We were two: a backend developer and myself on frontend, working in React Native. The technical challenge was making real-time trading feel seamless, live price updates, instant transaction execution, portfolio management that didn't lag.

What it took: building in production while the market shifted weekly, pitching to investors while metrics were still uncertain, applying to YC, learning when persistence matters and when it's time to shut down.

The demo was the first step, proof of concept. Somewhere in that process, we got the reality check we needed. Knowing when to let it go is as important as knowing when to push forward. We analyzed and arrived to a realization, done moved on to the next project.


Applied to YC 2024


Got first round investment by an angel


Talked around with community in Berlin


Got a reality check and concluded the project


Stealth

The second Startup Story 2025

This was the high-stakes project. Working in the web3 space where the idea was clear, execution was everything. Perfection, speed.

I worked as frontend developer in a four-person team: senior developers, backend engineers who'd built at scale. Non-stop working environment.

What I learned: how to communicate when every hour counts, how to make feature decisions quickly without breaking things, how to ship fast without compromising quality. My knowledge grew beyond frontend, understanding how backend architecture affects performance, how design choices impact implementation speed, how the whole system moves together.

Where Tech & Art fused

I always saw the intersection of technology and art as fascinating - where today's innovations could actually conjoin. For a long time it stayed theoretical, an idea about what could be possible.

In 2023, right before moving to Berlin, I decided to test it. I wanted to create immersive spaces where technology opened up new possibilities for artists - a space where their ideas weren't constrained by physical limitations. That's where the Sphere project started.

I worked with two artists to build interactive 3D installations. Maria, a glass artist, whose work explores fragility and materiality, the "Who Said Fragile?" installation translated her physical glass pieces into a digital space where visitors could interact with them in ways impossible with actual glass. The second was an experimental music duo from Uruguay. We explored the interconnectivity of networked grids to visualize their music flow, translating sound into spatial geometry.

The technical challenge was building these environments in Vectary and creating intuitive interactions. How do you make a 3D space feel navigable without instructions? The design challenge was translating each artist's vision into something that felt true to their work while taking advantage of what digital space could offer.

What I learned: giving artists technical freedom means understanding their work deeply enough to propose what's actually possible, not just what sounds cool. The sphere became the framework - observation from all angles, no boundaries, but still coherent and contained.

A curved glass display with four metallic spheres, three reflective and one with a marbled pattern, and the phrase "Who Said Fragile" on the transparent background.

Who Said Fragile? 2023. Maria.

A digital wireframe globe surrounded by a grid and lines, representing a technological or space-themed graphic.

Geometric sounds. 2023.

E-Commerce

E-Commerce, A handful of client sites, hand-built back when making a website still meant building it from scratch. Different businesses, different constraints, one throughline: learning what actually converts.