Collective behind the catalog
We keep the roster small so every cohort receives trace feedback instead of anonymous grading queues. Desk mail stays in San Cristóbal while learners dial in from South America, North America, and Vietnam.
Principles
Traceable decisions
Every exercise ends with a short decision log you can paste into Jira or Linear.
Budget-aware automation
We publish rough minute costs for CI paths so teams know what a green build spends.
Readable checks
Assertions are written for humans first; machines second.
Honest scope
If a technique needs staging data, we say so up front and ship seed scripts.
Milestones
- 2021 — Pilot cohort
Eight engineers from two logistics teams completed the Pytest slice.
- 2023 — Broker lab
Pact broker sandbox went live with anonymized sample contracts.
- 2025 — VN-friendly windows
Added recurring GMT+7 office hours alongside Americas-friendly slots.
Team carousel
Mariana Ortega
QA curriculum lead
Former release train engineer; shapes rubrics for flake response drills.
Hai Phong
Automation mentor
Builds pipeline templates for Playwright and k6 with cost caps.
Lucía Paredes
Instructor · contract testing
Teaches broker workflows and consumer-driven change management.
Kenji Watanabe
Instructor · performance
Focuses on threshold design tied to customer-visible journeys.
Amelia Frost
Learner support lead
Coordinates office hours across GMT+7 and GMT-4 friendly windows.
Diego Salazar
Lab operations
Maintains device benches and keeps lab VMs patched for Detox tracks.
Rina Vo
Community facilitator
Hosts critique sessions for test design documents before merge.