Available for opportunities Hi, I'm Raul
Senior Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Air Force veteran → Real estate broker → Self-taught coder → Software engineer. Family man, lifelong learner, and builder of things. I specialize in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) at enterprise scale.
3+
Years at Dell
15+
Years Real Estate
🇺🇸
USAF Veteran
~$ whoami
name: Raul C. Peña
role: Sr. Software Engineer @ Dell
founder: BrokerMade
focus: DevSecOps, Vault, CI/CD
location: Georgetown, TX
~$ cat skills.txt
Go, Python, Swift
Terraform, Ansible, Podman
IBM Vault (HashiCorp), SonarQube
Machine Learning, Data Science
An Unconventional Journey
From serving my country to serving clients to serving code — my path proves it's never too late to reinvent yourself.
'94-'97
Air Force
Honor Guard & Security
'04-'14
San Antonio
Real Estate & Family
'14+
Georgetown
Home, School & Code
Now
Dell Sr. Engineer
DevOps & Vault
Skills & Technologies
DevSecOps
IBM Vault (HashiCorp), SonarQube, Terraform, Ansible, Podman
Programming
Swift, Go, Python, Shell, SQL
AI & Data
Machine Learning, Apache Airflow, Data Pipelines
Featured Projects
BrokerMade
Real estate websites, built by a Texas broker
BrokerMade offers polished, conversion-focused website templates built specifically for real estate agents — designed by a broker who's been in the trenches. Professional, ready-to-launch sites with no web-design skills required. Founded and run by Raul C. Peña.
Real Estate Web Design Templates Founder
Started Jul 2026
Feastmark
Turn recipe videos into your personal cookbook
One tap from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube — even when the recipe is only spoken in the video and never written down. Feastmark extracts the ingredients and instructions automatically. iPhone and iPad. Optional iCloud if you want the same library on another device.
iOS Swift Food & Drink
Started Apr 2026
PayoffPilot
Pay off debt. Pay once. Done.
Compare Snowball vs. Avalanche with your real numbers, see your debt-free date, and track every payment. Scenario simulator, payment reminders, and Face ID lock — no account, no data collection, everything stays on your device.
iOS SwiftUI Personal Finance Privacy
Building since Oct 2025
Latest from the Blog
Thoughts on software engineering, DevOps, and lessons learned along the way.
Case Study 9 min read
I Wrote the Lesson Down on Day One. It Still Cost Me Twenty-Six Days.
Apple pulled Feastmark from review on August 2nd. Twenty-six days and fourteen builds later I resubmitted it, and the bug that ate the most of that time was one I had already diagnosed, written up, and declared fixed — twice.
ios swift app-store share-extension
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August 28, 2026
Read more Case Study 8 min read
Apple's Uploader Wanted an Icon Size That Doesn't Exist
"Missing app icon. iMessage-only apps must include an asset catalog with a large app icon" — eight uploads rejected with a 409 for a 1024x1024 the .stickersiconset schema has no slot for and actool refuses to emit. What the check actually reads, and the workaround that got the build through.
ios xcode app-store-connect imessage
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August 6, 2026
Read more Case Study 2 min read
Nine Months of Nights and Weekends Ends With an App Store Link
PayoffPilot cleared App Review and is live on the App Store — the payoff after nine months of nights and weekends, for an app that, by design, can't tell me if anyone's actually opening it.
app-store ios big-beard-apps payoffpilot
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August 4, 2026
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Whether you have a project in mind or just want to chat about tech, I'd love to hear from you.