My name is Pedro Valdez. I was born in Wisconsin, but was raised in a small town in Tamaulipas, Mexico until 2010, after which I moved to Texas. Apart from programming, I love videogames like Halo 3 and have recently taken a liking to the gym.

I have always been fascinated by technology, always wanting to know how something worked. However, knowing how something worked eventually wasn't enough, I wanted to be the creator. The first thing I programmed was a two-player Macromedia Flash 8 game that simulated the playground game "tag." I didn't program much more until highschool, where I took computer science classes from sophomore to senior year, as well as competed in UIL and TSA computer science competitions. I gained more pragmatic programming skills in college after taking classes like software engineering and data structures and algorithms.

Nowadays I focus on creating web apps that I find personally useful or entertraining with NextJS. I also like to create interactive creative coding sketches, like this one about truchet tiles.