About

I'm Bobby — a self-taught data engineer, currently at T-Mobile, where I build systems that move, clean, and protect data at scale. ~15 years in, still optimizing everything I touch — pipelines, models, feedback loops, occasionally myself. I genuinely love data and automation; always have. Moving toward principal / ML engineering, mostly by doing the work before anyone asks for the title.

I started programming at 11 inside MUDs (Lima mudlib). I didn't want to play the game — I wanted to bend the world. That instinct never really went away.

Early influence: The Terminator. Not in a "robots will kill us" way — more in a "systems that learn, adapt, and persist" way. I haven't built a robot yet, but it's on the same mental backlog as "optimize everything."

Outside of work, I build things that don't need to exist: games (Rust, C/C++, SDL2/3), mechanical keyboards (too many, still not enough), and woodworking (aggressively mediocre, spiritually committed).

I'm a dad of three. My youngest is non-verbal and autistic — he's the center of everything. He's also the reason I care about building systems that are not just efficient, but meaningful. Scale is easy. Impact is harder.

This site is where all of that collides — data systems, experiments, half-finished ideas, and the occasional thing that actually works. If you want to talk: hello@builtcurio.us