I grew up in Spain and later went to the University of Manchester for a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology with business studies and a Master’s in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, which combined medical sciences with computer science. The plan was to do science. However, somewhere in the middle of that, I started writing code for the research I was doing and discovered I enjoyed coding and building apps much more than the science.
That shift turned into almost a decade in software and project management. I led a small ML-product team at Unique Insights in Manchester, oversaw the software development at a tech startup called MADANA in Berlin, and then spent three years at Doc Cirrus in Berlin building inSuite and its periphery apps. InSuite is a practice-management software used by medical institutions all across Germany. The work I’m proudest of there was developing and maintaining the container and deployment infrastructure so partner companies could ship their own apps inside the platform.
I have been volunteering with charities since before I even went to university. It started with helping handicapped kids do physical exercise in Spain, then it moved on to feeding, sheltering and rehabilitating the homeless in Manchester. For this we founded the charity SPIN, with whom we turned a former Baptist church into a shelter. After I moved to Berlin I co-founded Lotus Project, which brought renewable solar power to villages in remote forests in Vietnam. After this my non-profit work became more digital — building websites for other charities and supporting them with their tech and marketing strategies.
In parallel I’d been practising Buddhism since my early twenties. When the opportunity to ordain was presented to me I then had to make the difficult decision to leave my job at Doc Cirrus. And in 2022 I moved to Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Institute in the Indian Himalayas, to begin formal study of advanced Buddhist philosophy. I’m now a fully-ordained monk in the Mūlasarvāstivāda (Tibetan) tradition, ordained under the name Tenpa.
These days I split my time three ways. I study advanced philosophy at DKCLI as an academic researcher affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University, on a Khyentse Foundation grant. I write software for the sake of the longevity of Buddhism, such as Offering Bowl — a platform that lets lay sponsors support Buddhist monastics directly, modernising the ancient practice of dāna for the digital age. And I receive monastic and meditation training from some of the best Buddhist monks and teachers of today.
My writings on Buddhist philosophy and monastic life live at middlewaymusings.com. This site is deliberately quieter — a place to point people to the work, not a publishing platform.
If you want to reach me, email is best.