About Me | @rnzch

Who I am?

Hey there! 👋 I'm Rodrigo. Mechatronics Engineering student. Full-stack developer.

"The best way to understand something is to take it apart and put it back together."

— My 8 year old self (probably)

What I do? (and why)

Hardware and software developer with an obsession for understanding how everything works.

Some call that being a "jack of all trades" often forgetting the full phrase:

"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."

— Geffray Mynshul, Essays and Characters of a Prison (1618)

I'm not interested in being boxed in. Innovation usually happens in the overlap.

My Story

A quick list of key moments that pushed me deeper into tech.

Early Days: I was the kid who dismantled toys, clocks, and any gadget that came my way.
First robotics projects: Before I could even spell "engineering" I was already making vibration powered "roach bots", RC cars, rechargeable portable fans and the list goes on and on.
First OS adventures: Got a Windows 98 PC without internet, then taught myself how to upgrade it to Windows XP SP2. Still my favorite OS. it's where I learned how software works.
Linux exploration: Discovered Linux early on, which taught the sacred arts: terminal commands, Git, package management, and a bit of Bash scripting. I also set up my first local servers and realized why Unix-like file systems feel like home.
Minecraft: Learned English because I didn't know how to change the game's language. At 11, started coding Java to make my own plugins and mods for servers I moderated.
Online games: Playing online games with my brothers and cousins made me wonder: "How does this even "work?" That curiosity led me to ActionScript, where I built an tracing game for kids. Around the same time, I experimented with Visual Basic for tiny desktop tools.
Blockchain era: Got fascinated by blockchain's tech. Decentralization, crypto algorithms, consensus. Built a Solidity based trading bot that connected my wallet, pulled price feeds, and executed trades automatically. Might even open source it one day… still deciding.
Web dev: After The Social Network, I tried making "Facebook" with HTML and CSS (spoiler: failed). But, that fail led me to learn JavaScript and PHP, enter a hackathon, build a real time whiteboard with Node + Socket IO and actually win.
Early AI: Before GPT hype, I ran VQGAN + CLIP on Colab. Slow, GPU hungry, but mind blowing. Also tried Google's BERT via Python, back when AI had no chat interface, the good old days.
Bug hunter: Found a severe vulnerability in my university's main web app exposing sensitive data (names, schedules, payments, addresses…). Reported it and somehow ended up working in their IT department.
J.A.R.V.I.S: I've always loved Iron Man, but more than Tony Stark, I was fascinated with Jarvis, an AI that could anticipate needs in real time. That dream stuck with me. Today, I'm building Lisa AI, my own "Jarvis as a Service".

What I'm working on

A snapshot of the projects and ideas I'm focused on right now.

Project	Description
🤖 Lisa AI	AI copilot in your daily routine with multimodal home automation. Learns routines, acts autonomously, and connects with everything. Future vision: an open plugin marketplace (like mcp.so).
💻 LinkSite	A platform to organize and share engineering (or any field) events in my university. Born from the chaos of scattered IEEE announcements. Designed with scalable architecture and AI assisted workflows.
⚡ Runakall	Developing renewable energy systems powered by physical activity.
🚀 404 Tech Found	Recently accepted into their pre incubation program for Lisa AI.

My Philosophy

Some people write manifestos. I write bullet points.

Open Source at heart: Knowledge grows when shared.
Curiosity driven learning: "I don't know" is just a checkpoint, not an endpoint.
Systems thinking: The magic is in making tech and human needs work together.
Impact: I'd rather build something useful than something that looks good in a pitch deck.
Interdisciplinary: The more domains you understand, the more unique your solutions become.