The Montoya Herald, a weblog about Blueprint, jQuery, design, music and life, publishing on the web since September 2005. Written by Christian Montoya: developer, designer and entrepreneur.

About Me

Let me tell you a little about myself.

I am a 23 year old web developer with very little artistic talent but a lot of CSS tricks up my sleeve. I graduated in May of 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University but I don't plan to play with oscilloscopes or breadboards any more. I currently run my own startup, Mappdev, dedicated to online social games. A different bio about my career in the gaming industry can be found there.

My main development focus is on PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS. I am the project lead for Blueprint, the best CSS Framework around, and I am a big fan of jQuery and Wordpress. I also spend almost all my time working with the Facebook platform.

I have a decent portfolio that showcases some of the better projects I have done in the past as well as a profile on LinkedIn where you can see my work experience.

I speak three languages: English, Spanish, and German. If you want to throw me a curveball, try any of the latter two. It might be fun (or embarrassing).

Who I am

I am a Christian. I believe in what the Bible says (every single word) and I am open to discussion about it.

My dad is from Colombia, and he gave me the name Montoya. My mom is from Michigan; her background is spread across Europe, America, and the Middle East. She loved the name Christian since she was young. I am quite a mix of ethnicities and cultures, and as much as it might seem like I could fit in anywhere, I really don't fit in at all. Maybe I'm truly unique

If you want to know my middle name, you'll have to ask!

Life on the Web

I run quite a few sites on the web, which you can find on my portal page. The logo in the favicon of this site is the one I made for myself, and I use it to represent myself across all the sites I run.

This was my old avatar, it was with me since I started blogging in January of 2003 at Livejournal. Now I use the picture in the header of this site as my Gravatar.

Before I started putting together this site I went by the handle "sirokai." I actually thought of it out of the blue and later found out it is a surname in some part of eastern europe. To this day, anywhere you see that handle on the web, you can safely assume it's me.

You can contact me just about any time by e-mailing me at "montoya [dot] christian [at] gmail [dot] com", or you can use the contact me page.