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Vicente Iglesias - Software developer based in Basel, Switzerland
📍Basel, Switzerland

Hi, I'm
Vicente.

developerwriterrecovering entrepreneur

Chilean developer based in Basel, Switzerland. Building React frontends for biotech research tools at Genedata—helping scientists analyze genomic data and drug discovery workflows.

Software engineer focused on architecture and reliable systems. Building in production since 2013. Started my own company (RaccoonLabs), learned that I'm an entrepreneur structurally, not compulsively—which is a fancy way of saying I still think like a founder even when I'm employed.

// Fun fact:
I document obsessively. I think writing is thinking, and if you can't explain it clearly, you don't understand it yet.

16,381
lines in journal
Since 2013
writing code
coffee consumed

Currently obsessing over

What I am building toward right now.
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Agent Runtime Infrastructure

Building toward systems that treat state, replay, supervision, and recovery as first-class for agents.

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02

Macroscopic Interpretability

Version control for cognition: deterministic traces, causal localization, and accountable agent behavior.

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03

Production Systems Discipline

Reliability, debugging, and the operational constraints that make autonomous software trustworthy.

Also: life sciences product work, German A2, and writing more often in public.

What I'm doing now

Updated Jan 2026

📍 Basel, Switzerland · Developer at Genedata

📚 Reading Hamming & reorganizing my life in Obsidian (again)

🇩🇪 Learning German (slowly, very slowly)

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Featured case studies

Long-running projects that prove software can last

8 years of healthcare SaaS

Impaciente

How a healthcare compliance platform built in 2016 still serves 8 clinics across Chile—with long-term reliability, no rewrites, and no pivot anxiety.

8 clinics8 yearsReliable opsComplianceMeteor.js
Challenge

Chilean healthcare law requires strict patient complaint tracking. Paper fails. Generic tools don't understand compliance.

Approach

Built domain-specific SaaS with Meteor.js/MongoDB. Real-time workflows, deadline alerts, compliance reporting.

Outcome

8 clinics, 8 years in production. Still running on original codebase. Proof that boring tech + domain knowledge wins.

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10 years, 91,000 lines

Matabichos Workflow

Complete operating system for multi-region pest control company. From spreadsheet chaos to centralized workflows—sales, scheduling, operations, billing, compliance, all in one system.

10 years91k LOC33 collections7 automations11 modules
Challenge

Multi-region operations running on spreadsheets and email. No visibility, slow follow-ups, compliance risks.

Approach

Built 11 integrated modules: sales pipeline, scheduling, operations, invoicing, collections, compliance, HR, fleet.

Outcome

10 years running, 91k LOC, 33 collections, 7 automations. Single source of truth replacing dozens of spreadsheets.

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Other projects

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Thinking out loud

Writing as a tool for clarifying complex technical and personal problems.

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Let's talk!

Coffee? Collaboration? Just want to nerd out about docs?

I'm always down to chat about frontend architecture, developer experience, or why your commit messages should be essays.

→ (Promise: less intense in person than in writing. Probably.)

Based in Basel. Available for coffee if you're around. Mountains nearby preferred.