Senior engineer from Bogotá.
Building the coach I wished I had.
After a decade working as a Systems Engineer, building everything from Python backends to React Native apps, I kept seeing talented engineers hit the same invisible ceiling. Not for lack of skill. For lack of a structured path. No feedback loop. No daily accountability. Just ambition and a Notion doc that nobody opens after week two.
I knew the gap was real. But everything I found either taught me concepts without testing readiness, or put the whole burden of structure on me. I needed something that acted more like a training regime than a course library.
So I'm building it. Not just for you, but because I need it. I am currently pivoting my own career to become an AI Engineer, and Climbr is the accountability engine making sure I execute my own plan. It is the coach I couldn't find: one that knows where you're going, breaks the path into daily actions you can actually finish, and checks whether you're getting there.
Why LATAM engineers, specifically.
The engineering talent in Latin America is world-class. The visibility to the right employers isn't. There's a real gap between what engineers here are capable of and what they're paid to do. Most of the time it's not a skills problem, it's a growth problem: no structure, no feedback, no one pushing you forward.
Climbr starts there. Not because it's a niche, but because it's the problem I know most intimately. The core engine works for any professional goal. Starting focused keeps the coaching quality high.
How I'm building it.
Everything is public. The roadmap shows exactly what's being built and what's next. The founding offer is 20 spots at $9/mo locked forever, because I want the first users to be people who believe in the idea early enough to take a small risk on it.
Every feature gets designed around whether I'd actually use it daily, not whether it sounds good in a pitch.
Get in touch (and shape the product)
If you're a software engineer trying to level up, or just want to compare notes on the LATAM to remote journey, I read every message. But the best way to help build this right now is by going to the Features or Roadmap pages. There, you can vote, comment, or directly add the features and tasks you think are missing to make this a system you would actually use.
dave@climbr.dev