Writing Tech Brief By HackerNoon
Aug 5, 2026 · 18 min · 13 segments
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Tell us a bit about yourself.
For example, name, profession, and personal interests.
My name is Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa.
I describe myself simply as a technology worker.
Having started in the final years of the last century, I've been fortunate to witness the internet and IT revolutions transform nearly every industry and to watch technology evolve from something resembling the Wild West into today's increasingly governed and regulated environment.
Now, I'm deeply curious to see how the AI revolution will change everything once again.
I'm fascinated by the questions technology raises as it evolves, how old problems return in new forms, how each generation tries to solve them differently, and what the technologies we create ultimately mean for us.
It led me from building websites and CRM systems around the turn of the millennium to developing real-time financial data and market risk systems for banking institutions as regulatory requirements expanded.
Along the way, I worked on mobile applications before the iPhone era, distributed architectures, and early prototypes involving digital certificates and cryptographic cards, technologies that were only beginning to appear in electronic national identity cards.
I joined Novell in 2007 in a technical pre-sales role covering infrastructure, identity management, privileged access management, and security.
I latter continued my career at SUSE, working with open source technologies, enterprise Linux and, more recently, Kubernetes.
These different roles have allowed me to view technology from multiple angles: as an engineer, through the eyes of customers, and from the product and business sides, yes, even marketing.
They have taught me that technology cannot be fully understood or made successful from a single point of view.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
For example, name, profession, and personal interests.
My name is Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa.
I describe myself simply as a technology worker.
Having started in the final years of the last century, I've been fortunate to witness the internet and IT revolutions transform nearly every industry and to watch technology evolve from something resembling the Wild West into today's increasingly governed and regulated environment.
Now, I'm deeply curious to see how the AI revolution will change everything once again.
I'm fascinated by the questions technology raises as it evolves, how old problems return in new forms, how each generation tries to solve them differently, and what the technologies we create ultimately mean for us.
It led me from building websites and CRM systems around the turn of the millennium to developing real-time financial data and market risk systems for banking institutions as regulatory requirements expanded.
Along the way, I worked on mobile applications before the iPhone era, distributed architectures, and early prototypes involving digital certificates and cryptographic cards, technologies that were only beginning to appear in electronic national identity cards.
I joined Novell in 2007 in a technical pre-sales role covering infrastructure, identity management, privileged access management, and security.
I latter continued my career at SUSE, working with open source technologies, enterprise Linux and, more recently, Kubernetes.
These different roles have allowed me to view technology from multiple angles: as an engineer, through the eyes of customers, and from the product and business sides, yes, even marketing.
They have taught me that technology cannot be fully understood or made successful from a single point of view.
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