About me
I started developing my first commercial projects as a web developer in 2017. Although I’ve been passionate about technology for as long as I can remember. I discovered the internet at age 6, and along with it, I learned to use Paint 🎨 and play Pinball on a Windows XP computer that my cousins had. Years passed, and I discovered there was a cyber café near my house, so accompanied by my older brother, I spent a lot of time there, watching others play Age of Empires ⚔️. When I could, I also played on the computers and investigated how those games worked. But above all, I remember that while sitting there, I watched the owner, Alfredo, the good Fred, while he programmed and modeled game maps, or at least that’s what I remember. That made me want to try doing the same. I found it incredible how so many things happened on his screen that, although I couldn’t understand them, looked amazing. Without a doubt, he was my first influence to get into programming.
When we got our first computer at home, around 2011, I spent all my time there, creating my own texture packs to integrate them into one of the games I played the most: GTA SA. For this, I learned to use GIMP and later Photoshop. I wanted to go further and started creating scenarios for the game, so that’s when I learned 3D modeling. By then, I was already 12 years old, and I remember I had the intention of dedicating myself to creating video games 🎮. A couple of years later, knowing that programming is needed to create video games, I researched a bit and created my first website with HTML 4 and CSS3. It was a static page, clearly not responsive, and its design and content were very poor, but I felt very proud seeing my page working online.
My Beginnings in Programming 🖥️
In 2014, I entered high school and decided to take the Programming Technician career. In the first semester, as an integral project, I knew I wanted to make a video game, so I committed to doing it. I learned to use Unity, delved deeper into Blender, and a bit into C#. It was an arduous process, as no one on my team knew how to program, but with their help, we all learned a bit more and managed to complete the project. We delivered a functional demo of a character in a scenario in our 3D survival type game. It was at that moment that I discovered that making a video game is not easy at all and understood the magnitude of knowledge, time, and dedication needed.
I felt good about having achieved that small project, but gradually I fell more in love with web design and development. So, I started learning more about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I spent all my free time watching courses and practicing on fictional sites that I designed.
The World of Robotics 🤖
In high school, a teacher and good friend, Esteban Ángeles, recruited me to belong to the school’s robotics team, which competed in VEX Robotics tournaments. He saw me while I was designing a “3D spider robot” in Autodesk Inventor, so I was able to integrate more friends into the team. One of them was Erik Alejandro Estrada Sauza, someone with the same drive and curiosity as me. I was the robot designer, and he programmed it. Along with the rest of the team, we built it. It was a very fun experience full of learning.
In 2015, thanks to teacher Esteban, I was invited to take an Autodesk Inventor course for a week in another city, offered directly by Autodesk. At that time, the need arose in the team to get a 3D printer to further improve the functioning of our robot, so we started researching and trying to manufacture our own 3D printer. During that process, we discovered Kickstarter and ventured to try to publish a 3D printing project.
What’s Next…
In 2023, Proyecto Tizayocan was born, an initiative that seeks to apply technology to improve education, urban management, and connectivity in the municipality. This project is still in development, and we are gathering more collaborators to continue advancing.
At the end of 2024, after years working in the city council as Software Development Coordinator, and seeing the technological deficiencies of some municipalities, StellarGov emerges, a web components framework with Tailwind to help developers of small governments create fast and quality websites.
I’m Cesar Asto Ore, and I thank you for reading this.