About — Yago Mendoza

Yago Mendoza — industrial engineer who bridges hardware and software. Machine learning, distributed systems, scaling laws, and cross-domain pattern recognition.

Yago Mendoza — Industrial Engineer & Systems Builder

"My competitive advantage is that I'm having fun."

I'm into building things and making them move faster. I use AI to unlock compute, document everything I learn, and publish it here — because building in public is how I think best, and if it helps make complex topics more approachable along the way, even better.

The Convergence

I learned to build by watching systems fail. My industrial engineering training: design from the failure point backward — find the bottleneck, then architect around it. Hardware and software aren't separate worlds to me; they're two sides of the same constraint. The critical problems live where bits meet atoms.

The Work

Those worlds are converging faster than anyone expected. AI, infrastructure, distributed systems. This is where I build. I'm drawn to problems where software meets physical limits. Whether it's in a hyperscale data center or a constrained edge device, I want to understand the physics, not just abstract it away.

The Record

This site is a living, interconnected record. I document the process because clear thinking requires writing it down. I'm not an expert in any of this — I'm a generalist who stacks knowledge across domains and connects the dots. This site reflects that: work in progress, not finished reference.

What I Believe

- To truly build, you have to understand the full stack — not just your slice of it. Removing black boxes, from hardware to the models running on it, is what gives you real agency over what you're building. - The bottleneck is rarely software — it's physics. We cannot cheat thermodynamics. The real work is building infrastructure that satisfies physical constraints at scale, from data centers to edge devices. - Intelligence should be as ubiquitous and invisible as electricity. Making compute a silent, fundamental resource — that's the infrastructure I want to build. - Complexity is debt, not progress. The instinct to question what exists before optimizing it — to ask why before how — matters more than any specific skill. - The patterns that scale are the ones that transfer. The same structural thinking that optimizes a supply chain can redesign a data pipeline — not because the tools overlap, but because the constraints do. - In a world of infinite problems and finite time, passion is the only sustainable filter. I work on what I can't stop thinking about — because that's the only way to outlast hard problems. Obsession compounds. - The future is bright.

Beyond the Stack

I study how organizations scale, how technologies fail, and how to make hard things feel simple. Patterns surface everywhere. The best engineers I know aren't just good at code — they're good at understanding why systems exist the way they do.

Outside of engineering, I try to keep things simple. I read because good writing forces clear thinking, and I write to figure out what I actually believe. Most of what I learn gets documented because patterns are easier to catch when they're on paper.

Contact: [email protected] GitHub: https://github.com/yago-mendoza LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yago-mendoza X: https://x.com/ymdatweets