Hi/Hola, my name is Luis and I’ve been a Mechanical Designer since the year 2000.

I have a computer engineering background, sheet metal shipboard furniture, injection plastic tooling and product design, most recent experience was at OtterBox/LifeProof focusing on the rugged, waterproof and commercial series, and recently getting into additive manufacturing design. My hobbies include 3D design and printing, computers, mountain biking and tacos. Bilingual (Spanish).

At home I design, model and 3D print highly customized solutions to personal needs and kids wants; at work, I eliminate the modeling bottleneck allowing engineers to focus on solving the product issues rather than figuring out why is the CAD model breaking. I have designed, implemented and deployed modeling infrastructures focusing on them being intuitive, flexible and robust, mayor emphasis on design for intent, reducing design times from months to weeks and even days. My passion is focused on improving my team’s workflow.

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Why L21 Degrees?

First, the number. 21 is a magical number, first two digits in our decimal system but not in order because nothing is perfect. My lifetime is set in the 21st century, interesting things happened at my age 21, the binary equivalent is 10101 which is very symmetrical and pleasing, roman is XXI, if you subtract 21 from a right angle you get the “funny number”, if you double 21, you get the meaning of everything and if you include a zero after you get the other “funny number” There are many other things but this is what I came up with while writing this. More stuff about this number in its wiki.

Then the “L”. It’s the first letter in my first and last name. It also looks like the angle symbol, reflecting my mechanical design background.

“Degrees”… well, I wanted to keep it short as L21 but in order to be efficient, you also have to be intuitive, so another word as a descriptor made sense (also the l21.com domain was veeery expensive).

Welcome to L21Degrees of Awesomeness, tacos and drinks included but not paid for… maybe.

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