About | Nicolás Carrillo

For the past few years I've worked independently with clients, taking full ownership of products from early technical decisions to long-term maintenance. I'm just as comfortable bringing that same ownership and systems thinking to a team.

Outside of work, I read research papers for fun, compete in tennis tournaments, and obsess over details most people wouldn't notice.

MacBook with AirPods Max resting on top

Emma, my cat, looking up outdoors

Tennis racket next to a pack of Babolat strings

Code editor showing a Rust TCP server project

Laptop screen showing a research paper on network congestion control

Open book showing a page about unsafe code in Rust

What I'm into

Tennis

I play regularly and occasionally compete in local tournaments. It's the only sport that makes my brain shut up for a couple of hours.

Broken racket strings — Happens to me regularly 🙃. My strategy is to hit it as hard as possible.

First tournament gold medal — First tournament I won.

Books

I'm drawn to stories about outliers, people who think differently and build things that change the world.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell — Success isn't random. Context and timing matter more than we want to admit.

Elon Musk biography — Ignoring every reason why it shouldn't work.

Steve Jobs biography — Obsession over details as a competitive advantage.

American Prometheus — The cost of building something that changes everything.

Movies

I don't watch many movies, but when I do, I prefer stories about obsessive people building something against the odds.

Oppenheimer movie

The Imitation Game — Thinking different isn't a choice, it's a burden.

The Founder — Relentless execution always beats the original idea.

Ford v Ferrari — When "good enough" doesn't exist in your vocabulary.