About
Hi! I'm Sergio Mattei — maker, entrepreneur, self-taught programmer and student.
What I've made
- Makerlog, a community of 7k+ software developers building projects in public.
- Cowork, a productivity tool for remote teams. (past)
- Taleship, a community for writing stories collaboratively, MSFT Imagine Cup 2017 project. (past)
- Alphasquare, a knowledge-sharing community for developers. (past)
- Coverpy, a library for fetching album covers from the iTunes Search API.
- Mxious, a music discovery platform I never finished.
- Eduview, an app that allows you to view public school performance throughout Puerto Rico, built in 24 hours for HackPR 2016, third place statistics.
- PulseData, a tiny hobby data science project for public PR government datasets.
- What A! Forums, my first website back when I was 10 years old. Surprisingly, it's still up.
Trivia
- I can play cuatro, a traditional Puerto Rican instrument, with great ease and skill.
- Played for 7 years, toured around the world as a kid.
- Played twice with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
- You can watch me perform on TV with the group when I was a kid.
- Yes, that's me. Please ignore my very serious face.
- I'm passionate about sociology, foreign policy, politics and philosophy.
- I want to get a master's in sociology sometime later in life.
- I have an interest in city planning, infrastructure and architecture.
- I'm a big history nerd.
- I'm particularly interested in non-Western societies.
- I'm particularly interested in repressive regimes.
- I don't know why. I don't align with their ideologies.
- They're just so different and secretive.
- I have quite the interest in aviation.
- I know my way around the industry and its history.
- I used to play MS Flight Simulator with my dad as a kid.
- That experience kicked off my interest in the industry.
- I really cherish those memories.
- Roadtrips are my jam.
- I made it to world quarterfinals as a solo founder to Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017.
- That was really fun.
- They taught me quite a bit: when I arrived to MSFT PR, I didn't even know how to pitch.
- Big thanks to Yamille, Ernesto and the team for the mentorship. I will forever treasure those moments.
- I traveled to Seattle and met so many amazing folks.
- I was featured on El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico's largest newspaper.
- This video capturing the moment Ricardo Rosselló quit as governor after a month long of arduous protests is probably favorite video ever.
- I love these songs 🇵🇷
