2025
- 🤝 Completed my first full year working at Expo.
- 🚀 Made a meaningful impact and received my first raise at Expo.
- ✈️ Visited Norway for the first time.
- ✈️ Attended App.js Conf in Krakow, Poland.
- 🎤 Gave my first workshop at the Local-First Conference in Berlin.
- ✈️ Visited Portland, Oregon for the first time.
- ✈️ Traveled to San Francisco for Sync Conf and the Expo / Instant meetup.
- 🤝 Met many amazing engineers and entrepreneurs in person.
- 🚀 Launched the LiveStore course on Code with Beto.
- 🚀 Shipped my first real app, AI Tattoo, reaching 300+ users and $49 MRR.
- 🧑🤝🧑 Hired my best friend to work full-time at Code with Beto.
- 💰 Code with Beto crossed $100,000 in revenue.
- 📺 Helped the Expo YouTube channel cross 45,000 subscribers.
- 📈 Grew my personal YouTube channel to 27,000+ subscribers.
- 🤝 Landed multiple YouTube sponsorships.
- 🎓 Received countless success stories from students landing their first software jobs and shipping their first apps.
- 💸 Broke into the world of angel investing (small checks, big lessons).
- 📈 Grew my stock portfolio to six figures — wild considering I was broke in 2023.
- ☕ Bought my first espresso machine.
2024
- ✈️️ Visited Mexico after 6 years.
- 🎉 Started working as a Developer Success Engineer at Expo.
- 🤝 Received and accepted an offer from Expo.
- 📈 Crossed 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.
- 🚀 Launched the Git & GitHub course on Code with Beto.
- ✈️ Took my wife to Tenerife, Spain.
- 🤒 Caught COVID for the third time.
2023
- 🇺🇸 Became a U.S. permanent resident.
- 🌐 Reached 10,000 registered users on Code with Beto.
- 🖥️ Launched the React with TypeScript course.
- 🏡 Relocated to Bentonville, AR (Walmart HQ).
- 💼 Started as a Software Engineer III at Walmart.
- 🤝 Accepted an offer from Walmart after applying to over 100 jobs.
- ✍️ Focused on creating content fully in English.
- 🌍 Translated my React Native course to English.
- 🎥 Uploaded several new videos to YouTube (English) and YouTube (Spanish).
2022
- ✅ Received work authorization in the U.S.
- 🤒 Caught COVID for the second time.
- 🎥 Published my first YouTube video in English.
- 🚀 Launched my first online course.
- 🌐 Built Code with Beto.
- 🎥 Uploaded over 80 videos to YouTube.
- 💡 Completed my first technical interview with Amazon (No offer, but learned a lot!).
- 🧠 Solved over 200 coding problems.
- 🌍 Worked remotely as a freelancer for international clients.
- 💍 Proposed and got married to my wife.
- 🏡 Relocated from Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA.
2021
- 📱 Launched simple apps on the App Store using React Native.
- 🎥 Started my YouTube channel in Spanish.
- 💻 Learned React Native and Expo.
- 🎮 Released my second mobile game: Souls.
2020
- 🤒 Caught COVID for the first time.
- 🎮 Launched my first mobile game: Rockets X.
- ✈️ Visited San Francisco for the first time, my favorite city.
- 💻 Got my first MacBook.
- ❤️ Met my future wife.
2018
- 🇺🇸 Moved to the U.S., starting a new chapter in life.
2017
- 🎓 Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
2015
- 🛂 Got my U.S. tourist visa approved to visit my sister.
2009
- 🎶 Got my first Apple product: an iPod Touch (2nd generation).
1994
- 🌍 Born in Mexico City, 🇲🇽 — the beginning of the journey.