Dyslexic José María Barrera is a software engineer and application architect whose work sits at the intersection of technology, representation, and meaning. Born in Colombia and trained as a computer scientist, he has spent more than three decades designing systems that translate complex domains such as financial markets, data, language, and AI into structures humans can understand and navigate. His professional path has taken him from neuroscience labs and real-time trading floors to AI research and large-scale semantic systems, always guided by a deeper curiosity about how abstract structures become lived experience. • Alongside his technical career runs a long-standing fascination with alchemy, geometry, and symbolic systems, sparked more than twenty years ago and deepened through the study of Egyptian culture. For José, these traditions are not curiosities but early knowledge technologies: attempts to encode transformation, time, and identity through spatial and symbolic forms. This exploration eventually led him to write Dendera, Temple of Time, a work that examines ancient Egyptian cosmology through cycles, symbolism, and celestial geometry. • José is also an avid photographer, using the camera as another instrument for studying structure, light, and perception. His photographic work has been exhibited in galleries in Chicago and New York City and sold at Sotheby’s Auctions. He lives in New York City, where his work continues to weave together software, AI, geometry, and symbolic thinking in a search for patterns that persist across disciplines, cultures, and time.