Watercolor panorama tracing Charles's journey from Peru through Venezuela to Canada

I've walked the far side of things.
Now I build from it.

Technology builder, contemplative traveler, photographer, writer, and founder working at the meeting point of craft, memory, and social impact.

01The Story

Born between cultures, shaped by movement.

I was born in Peru, spent my early years in Venezuela, and came of age in Canada. Much of my life has been shaped by learning how to move between worlds: engineering and intuition, strategy and silence, building and listening. Travel became one of the ways I learned to pay attention — first through the journal, then through photography, and eventually through the realization that leaving and returning were part of the same path.

Over time, the work changed. It became less about distance and more about alignment: how to build what is useful without losing what is human, how to carry history without being trapped by it, and how to make space for both structure and wonder. The road did not lead away from home. It clarified what home could mean.

Watercolor illustration of a quiet canoe on a misted river at dawn

Interlude

Dawn on the river. Mist. Silence. One more reminder that a life can be guided by listening.

02The Traveler

The soul of the work lives in the road, the journal, and the image.

For fifteen years, Charles has shared travel photography with historical context across more than seventy countries. The camera has been less a device for collecting than a companion for noticing: light on water, ruins shaped by time, conversations that reveal the deeper memory of a place. Alongside the photographs, the journal kept its own quiet record.

That archive became The Far Side of Things: Searching for a Purpose, Charles's published travel memoir tracing the journey from Finisterre to Vancouver through Galicia, Turkey, the Taj Mahal, museums, and the digital world.

Watercolor panorama of pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, classical architecture, and a savanna landscape

03The Builder

Building platforms with both rigor and range.

For more than seventeen years, Charles has worked across startups, private ventures, and public companies — launching products, guiding strategy, and helping more than thirty organizations bring digital platforms into the world. He is Founder of 4abyte Inc, a technology company rooted in Calgary and Peru.

His background includes an MBA from Ivey, graduate studies in electrical and computer engineering, and a career spanning product development, international business, mobile platforms, capital raising, and executive leadership. Today, that experience is shaped by a deeper question: how do we use technology — including AI — to build platforms that stay close to human need, cultural memory, and the land?

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17+

years across startups, private ventures, and public companies

30+

software and app platforms launched for clients and ventures

Ivey MBA

MSc + BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary

04The Founder

Building toward regeneration, stewardship, and a wider sense of belonging.

Charles is currently helping shape two initiatives —Greentech Alliance and Guardians of Sacred Lands — that bring his technical, cultural, and human commitments into the same field of work. The emphasis is no longer only on what can be scaled, but on what can be sustained with integrity.

His recent writing turns toward regeneration, Indigenous partnership, and the difficult work of designing systems that make dignity, stewardship, and continuity more possible. In that sense, this chapter is not separate from the earlier ones. It is what the earlier chapters were preparing for.

“We can only share what we have. So we can't change the world until we change ourselves.”

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05The Book

By C.B.M.

The Far Side of Things

Searching for a Purpose

A travel memoir following a search stretching from Finisterre, at the western edge of Spain, to Vancouver, at the western edge of Canada. It moves through Galicia, Turkey, the Taj Mahal, museums, and the digital world with watercolor imagery and a seeker's eye.

By C.B.M.

Steadfast Love

Amando a Contracorriente

Drawn from seventy-six conversations, it follows María de la Consolación Pardo Vargas — La Mami — from Peru's northern coast through a life shaped by migration, resilience, deep love, and the family she held together across borders and generations.

06Connect

Elsewhere.

Other traces, other conversations, other images — shared in a few simple places.