The 2022 World Cup was four years ago. That part is obvious. What is less obvious is that four years ago I was already working as a frontend developer at Innovattia, in my first real opportunity inside the industry. From that point I began to grow, to learn, to refuse to give up. Looking back, it seems almost improbable.
Not long ago I came across a project from that time. I was working for Innovattia and Walmart, and it was a World Cup page built for Bait, Walmart's mobile carrier. The UX team handed me a rough sketch of how it should look, and I built the whole thing from scratch. AI did not yet exist as part of the work. It was one project among many; others carried greater weight for the company. Yet this is the one I return to now, for its link to the World Cup, and because between 2022 and 2026 there stands, of course, an interval of four years.
From Cup to Cup, then, the point of departure and the present position come into view together. In the middle of a migration. And the question that follows is unavoidable: where will I stand four years from now.
This year I built no World Cup site for any company. I work for BBVA now, and the impact is, if anything, greater: millions of users in Mexico alone. Yet this Cup is my own. It is my world, my journey, my series of battles. There are no enemies in it, but there are allies: a family playing as a single team, my tools, my studies, and a clear path forward.
Time will erase even my footprints, but it was I who walked this road.
