I Could Run Teams. I Choose to Build Systems.
I spent a big part of my career being “the guy who can run a remote team.”
I helped build and operate a fully remote sales operation with more than sixty people across Latin America. We broke the work into clear roles, standardized the processes, and made the whole thing run through the right tools. Every time we changed a handoff or rewired a workflow, I was tuning an engine, not just managing people.
That experience made me very good at the human side of execution. I know how to brief people, write instructions that survive distance and ambiguity, and delegate effectively. I understand what it takes to keep a remote operation moving without constant drama.
But just because I can do that does not mean that is the role I want.
I am not looking to be “Director of People” or “Team Lead.” I do not want a calendar full of one-on-ones and alignment meetings. Understanding remote management deeply does not mean I want my day shaped around it.
I work as a principal engineer. I work directly with code, design, and technology. Where I create the most value is not in keeping a group of humans coordinated. It is in building the systems that make coordination simpler and more intelligent in the first place.
I have a mature capability for managing people, but it is not the capability that should activate by default. It is context that makes me better at my actual job, which is building things.
My influence lives in how I structure a process, design a workflow, connect tools, and translate a fuzzy objective into something an engineer, a script, or an AI agent can execute. It lives in architecture, documentation, and interfaces. Not in being everyone’s manager.
If someone works with me, the expectation is simple: treat me as the person who designs the system, not the person who runs the team.
I am building the room, the wiring behind it, and the logic that makes the whole thing work.
My job is to think, then to build, and to let that thinking compound inside systems instead of inside meetings.