Alejandro
Gonzalez

I grew up in Cuba watching football. It was the first thing I fell in love with, long before I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

I moved to the United States when I was fifteen, and that's where I found the second thing: technology. I learned to build, studied computer science at Florida International University, and graduated in 2026.

Ventaja FC is where the two meet. Once my studies were done I wanted to build something genuinely useful, and the most useful thing I could imagine was the tool I had always wanted as a fan — fast, honest football data, in both my languages, that respects the people using it. So I built it: for myself first, and then for every fan like me.

I like owning things end to end. With Ventaja that meant every layer — the data pipeline that turns a raw sports feed into something trustworthy, the API, the web app, the iOS app, and the infrastructure that keeps it all running — designed, built and operated by me. Alongside it I build websites for small businesses, which keeps me close to what people actually need from software.

Two things matter most to me in the work. The first is correctness under bad inputs — a system should stay right when the data it depends on is late, incomplete, or simply wrong, because in the real world it often is. The second is honesty about what the numbers say. Ventaja publishes its full prediction record because a track record nobody can check is worth nothing. If a feature can't prove it works, I don't ship it.

A system should stay right when the data it depends on is late, incomplete, or wrong — because in the real world it often is.

I'm bilingual in English and Spanish, and I build for both from the start rather than translating afterwards. Football is the world's game and most of its fans don't speak English first; Ventaja is written for them as much as for anyone.

Right now I'm growing Ventaja FC and building its next features, and I'm open to software and AI engineering roles where I can do this kind of work — real-time systems, products people use every day — at a larger scale.