My name is Esteban Torres and I'm currently an Engineering Manager @ Peec AI, leading the platform team that lays the foundations every other team builds on.
Originally from Costa Rica 🇨🇷, based in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪.
Previously Head of Platform Engineering @ Zenjob (60+ product engineers: infrastructure, observability, developer tooling and an org-wide rollout of AI-assisted development), Engineering Manager @ Spotify working on Backstage, and Engineering Manager for Core Clients / Back-End Engineering Productivity @ SoundCloud.
Started out writing iOS apps, switched to management in 2020 and never stopped coding: these days mostly Go, TypeScript and Node.js, with a fair amount of gRPC and NATS on side projects.
Posts and TILs from estebantorr.es, refreshed daily.
- Reduce not time but complexity - 22 Aug 2026
- Zellij 'multiplexer' - 20 Aug 2026
- Neuromancer: THE MOVIE - 31 Jul 2026
- Obsidian Notebook Navigator Plugin - 30 Jul 2026
- superfile CLI - 30 Jul 2026
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| Peec AI | AI search analytics for marketing teams — day job, platform team |
| Quik | AI-native product discovery: ingests every signal an org produces and ships features end to end |
| BlueTip | Multi-provider LLM writing platform — brainstorm, outline, write, publish |
| FitForge | Fitness management platform for gyms, trainers and clients |
Smaller things I keep in the open: stethoscope (Go/Prometheus monitoring), blogwatcher-ui (Go/RSS), obsidian-book-visualizer and obsidian-movie-tv-visualizer.
More at estebantorr.es/portfolio · past conference talks at estebantorr.es/talks · full history at estebantorr.es/cv.