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    Hi! I'm Victor, a developer and interaction designer. I work where design and code overlap.

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    I build ideas from the ground up. From wireframes to polished mockups to functional code.

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    LLM Party is my current side project.

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    Inspired by The Cyberiad and Make It So.

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    Let's connect!
    victormdb@proton.me

Victor character illustration

Work Experience

  • Founding Design Engineer
    Stealth Startup
    2024Present
    Consumer startup in the mixed-reality space. Joined as employee #2, owning design, frontend, and interaction across the product. Designing the full product surface: React Native mobile app, Unity 3D client, Supabase + Go backend. Shipping production code on mobile and Deno edge functions; contributing scripts to the Unity client. Set the design language and engineering conventions.
  • Head of Design
    CredCore
    20222024
    Led design at an AI fintech analyzing debt and credit documents. Grew the team 2 → 6 as the company scaled 8 → 50 (Series A). Owned a platform redesign, prototyped flows in React, built the Figma + Storybook design system, and led a rebrand. Reported to the founder as the design–product–engineering interface.
  • Lead UX Developer
    Pharmaceutical supply-chain platform serving 100+ healthcare providers in Nigeria and Kenya. Joined writing React and D3, then took over design of workflows and data visualizations for drivers, warehouse staff, and pharmacists; eventually owned the Figma design system. Shipped a forecasting dashboard for pre-ordering vaccines and antimalarials ahead of seasonal outbreaks. The mobile app was built for low-connectivity rural environments.
  • Interaction Designer
    Designed and prototyped for clients including UNICEF, Save the Children, and Telefonica. Built embeddable visualizations and custom GUIs in Drupal. Shipped Dr. Robert, an early chatbot replacing complex pharmaceutical-database UIs. Doctors could look up disease-medicine links, generics, and active ingredients via chat.
  • R&D Engineer & Mobile Maker Space Director
    BQ, Spain
    20152017
    Founded and directed CIRCOLAB, a BQ-funded mobile maker-space initiative: led a team of six on a nationwide Spain tour, running 40+ workshops with original curriculum and reaching 2000+ participants. As a member of the robotics lab, also helped prototype Bluetooth firmware and the block-based programming app for Zowi, BQ's flagship educational robot.
  • Software and Hardware Prototyping
    Joined the MakeWithMoto tour as an on-site prototyper, a mobile maker space visiting top US universities (MIT, Berkeley, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Texas A&M, among others) and industry partners. The program was Motorola ATAP's design research for what would become Project Ara, the modular smartphone; we ran hands-on prototyping workshops to validate modular-hardware concepts.
  • STEAM Education Designer / Researcher
    Co-designed and co-taught a year-long STEAM curriculum for two cohorts of vocational students (~30 total, ages 13–17), funded by the Mondriaan Fund. Coursework spanned Processing, interaction design, mixed reality, game design, and video creation. Cohorts built a location-based mixed-reality game played through audio while walking the streets.

Education

  • MSc Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media
    Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
    20092010
  • Telecommunication Engineering (BSc + MSc)
    University of Jaén, Spain
    20012007
    With exchange programs at University of Bern (Switzerland) and University of Sciences Tokyo (Japan).

Languages

  • Spanish · native
  • English · fluent
  • French · fluent
  • Japanese · basic
  • German · basic

Toolkit

  • LLMs
  • Agentic workflows
  • RAG
  • React
  • Vue.js
  • Svelte
  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Android
  • Figma
  • Storybook
  • Design systems
  • Node.js
  • Deno
  • Python

Teaching & Talks (selection)

Conference talks at Droidcon (×2) and other industry venues.

Guest workshops at Design Academy Eindhoven, NL (2017–2020).

30+ workshops across EU and India: Hillhacks, Medialab-Prado, The Patching Zone.