Hello! I am César Vega.
“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” — Elbert Hubbard
I am a software engineer!
I was born in 1996 in Monclova...
"This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move" - Douglas Adams
In 2012 I studied in Canada for 6 months to improve my English.
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” - Frank Smith
In 2014 I started studying chemical engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus Monterrey
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.” - Mhairi McFarlane
In 2018 I started to look for internships
In my first interview I was asked if I knew python. I panicked and said yes. I did not know python back then. I got the job
For the next few weeks I worked late to read and learn about python.
“Dude, sucking at sumthin’ is the first step towards being sorta good at something.” - Jake the dog
In 2018 I started my first internship at DeAcero as an Energy Analyst
I worked there from May 2018 to December 2018
I built a model to forecast energy prices, demand and generation in short and long term in the company and the Mexican market.
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” - Nils Bohr
In 2019 I started an internship at CIEMAT in Madrid.
I worked there from Febuary 2019 to July 2019
There I built a simulation of a petroleum refining pilot plant. I proposed improvements to the pilot-plant and installed the modifications. And I wrote CAPEX and OPEX analysis and reports for financial project evaluations.
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...” - Issac Assimov
After I returned to México I graduated in December 2019.
“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” - Tom Brokaw
In early 2020 the coronavirus pandemic started and I decided to stay at my house, study, and work as a freelancer.
During that time I learnt about atificial intelligence, management consulting, big data, and finance.
As a freelancer I automated a company's data collection strategies. I worked in a Tableau dashboard. And I worked on a machine learning algorithm to forecast the client's energy consumption.
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” - Ralph Waldo Emmerson
In August 2020 I was hired at KSquare University as an associate software engineer focused on Javascript.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius
Why JavaScript?
JavaScript makes the internet come alive and is one of the most in-demand programming languages
“Fortunately, JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.” - Douglas Crockford
My areas of expertise
“Build your skills, not your resume. ” - Sheryl Sandberg
Certifications and courses.
Languages: Spanish and English.
Basic certification of the mexican energy market.
Chartered financial analyst.
“certificates can’t replace self-education.” - Sunday Adelaja
Hobbies
“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.” ― Edward Abbey
The future and my bucketlist
I don't have an specific plan for the future. But I have some guidelines on what I want to do.
I want to get a technology masters in the next decade.
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I want to start or support a charity to give free education, a household and food to children and teenagers.
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I want to keep working on technology for the rest of my life.
