Principal Engineer · Entrepreneur · Coffee Roaster
- 📍 Based in Sonora, Mexico
- 🛠 Founder @ Culto al Perro Café | Business Developer @ Taller Lobo y Osa
- 🎓 B.S. in Software Engineering – ITSON
- 🐶 Dog dad to Picnic & Chai
I’m a hands-on Principal Engineer who likes shipping, not over-architecting. I’ve helped early-stage startups go from “we have an idea” to “this is a real platform with customers, infra, and processes.”
My work usually sits at the intersection of:
- backend architecture (Django/FastAPI, Python-heavy)
- infrastructure & automation (AWS, Terraform, S3/SQS/ECS, Temporal, Celery)
- product thinking and zero-BS problem solving
- building teams, systems, and things that actually get used
Outside tech, I roast coffee, run a café, and help small businesses sharpen their brand and operations. I enjoy jumping between code, craft, design, and strategy.
DevOps & Infra
Docker · AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, DynamoDB) · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Retool · Cloudflare
Tools I Love
Poetry · Linear · Notion · Slack · Git · GitHub
- I’m a frustrated musician 🎸
- I roast my own coffee and run a small café in northern Mexico
- I believe in building fast, shipping often, and learning out loud
- Big fan of stoicism, jazz, and long walks with my dogs 🐕
- Twitter: @jmsalcido
- LinkedIn: José Salcido
- Personal site: otfusion.org