Backend & real-time systems engineer.
I build fast, free cloud-native tools.

Lead Software Engineer with 18+ years shipping backend services, distributed systems, and VoIP platforms. Creator of Floci, a suite of local cloud emulators.

18+ yrsJavaQuarkusVert.xVoIPCloud-native
Hector Ventura
Featured open source

The Floci family

Free, MIT-licensed cloud emulators that run with no accounts, auth tokens, or usage limits.

AWS

Floci

A drop-in LocalStack replacement emulating 47 AWS services on port 4566. Native binary, ~24 ms cold start, ~13 MiB idle.

Azure

Floci-Az

The Azure companion, covering Blob, Queue & Table Storage, Functions, Key Vault, Event Hubs, and Service Bus on port 4577.

GCP

Floci-GCP

The Google Cloud companion, covering Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Datastore, Secret Manager, IAM, and Managed Kafka on port 4588.

Support open source

Help keep Floci free forever

I build free, MIT-licensed open-source tools like the Floci cloud emulators. If they save you time, please consider supporting their development.

Toolbox

What I work with

Languages

JavaShell

Frameworks

QuarkusVert.xSpring BootJakarta EE

Cloud & infra

CloudContainersTerraformAnsibleDockerPodman

VoIP / Telecom

FreeSwitchAsteriskKamailio

Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDBDebeziumKafka
Speaking & community

Talks, workshops & contributions

Quarkus 1,000 Contributor, with talks at JConf Dominicana and Java Dominicano. Active in the Postgres MetroPlex Dallas community.

Let's connect

Open to consulting, collaboration, and speaking. Whether it's a backend architecture, a tricky VoIP system, or Floci itself. I read every message.