Born in Venezuela and moved to Canada when I was quite young. Thankfully I have still maintained my spanish (language and culture)!

I love to explore and meet new people. I'd also like to consider myself a really approachable person who's willing to try new things and accept different perspectives.

I work at a startup company in downtown Toronto where I help write the software for our product alongside 10 other software engineers.

I am a huge soccer fan, and am dying to do a "soccer euro trip" where I travel to various cities based on their soccer teams.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like getting a local's perspective while visiting new places.

I am also willing to host. But I can only accept one person at a time.

Interests

Soccer is my passion.

I also love:
Cooking. Eating. Running. Exploring. Programming. Learning. Reading Reading Reading.

• cooking
• recipes
• fitness
• exercise
• running
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• snowboarding
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Motorcycle Diaries. Pulp Fiction. Snatch. In Bruges. Life is Beautiful.

Music: Tech-House. Rock. Acid Jazz. Reggae. Rap. Lounge.

Books: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Life of Pi. Siddhartha. Outliers. Freakonomics. Let the Great World Spin. 1984. The Passage. Man's Search for Meaning. Everything You Want.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've started my own company. Learned lots, and ended up shutting it down to work with a pair of awesome cofounders (this is the company I am at now). I plan to start an ambitious software company within 1 or 2 years.

I built my website (gdelgado.ca) from scratch. I wrote all the code and made the design for it.

In Winter 2014 I challenged myself to blog every other day for four months straight (https://gdelgado.ca/tag/forty-eight.html)

I didn't publicize the blog because of how personal / philosophical / deep I got with it. It was more of an exercise in mental refinement.

My mind felt incredibly sharp, and I felt this calmness inside me which I sometimes miss.

This was in complete contrast to my first blog, which garnered over 30,000 views in less than 8 months.

Teach, Learn, Share

Expert JavaScript programmer. Very comfortable with SQL, MongoDB, HTML, CSS, Git, Python, Haskell and a few other technologies.

Experience blogging and building blogging websites.

Strong Spanish skills.

Got a few recipes up my sleeves.

Ex Semi-pro Soccer player = knowledge of personal training / fitness training.

Strong mathematical background.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have a snowboard and all the equipment that I can lend you if you want to try snowboarding!

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Spain, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Venezuela

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