I’m Oscar. Engineering manager by day, builder by nature.
I’ve spent over 15 years in software engineering. I built a healthcare SaaS platform from scratch, managed engineering teams at a Fortune 100 company, and worked across healthcare, insurance, and business intelligence. I keep ending up in places where technology meets real human needs, and I think that says something about what I’m drawn to.
I build in the digital and the physical. On any given weekend, I might be designing a simpler way to upload photos to our family photo frame, tearing up a subfloor, or installing minisplits in our 1890s farmhouse. I run a self-hosted infrastructure stack at home because I think people should own their data, not rent it. I tinker with local LLMs, camera-based ML, and home automation, and I write about what I learn here.
I live in Concord, New Hampshire with my wife, our two boys, and three cats: Arthur, Gwen, and Morgan. Yes, there’s an Arthurian legend theme. Arthur in particular has a well-documented history of food crime.
When I’m not coding, managing engineers, or renovating something, I volunteer with the Concord Multicultural Festival and at our local animal shelter, serve on nonprofit boards, and try to figure out what to do with the empty barn foundation in my backyard.
You can find my projects on GitHub or reach me at oscar@oscargala.com.