Year One — April 2025 to April 2026
From the Work. From the City. From the Build.
A year ago I posted for the first time as Dungo Digital. I was a college CS instructor, a full-time government engineer, and someone recording big ideas into a phone on the commute. Today the teaching chapter is archived, the doctorate is funded, and the public layer is clearer: full-time technologist, doctoral student, builder, and Techs in the City field correspondent.
The Announcement
Full-ride doctoral scholarship. Doctorate of Information Technology. Accepted.
Last month the letter came. After years of being the educator in the room, the engineer in the meeting, and the person building bridges across every gap I could find. Now I get to go back and learn. Fully funded. And document every step of it in public.
This is the intersection I have been building toward: academia, industry, and government. All in one lane. The commute has a new destination.
Three Active Lanes
Doctoral Student
Doctorate of Information Technology, full-ride scholarship. Researching systems, applied AI, and the pipeline between underserved communities and the tech workforce.
From Uvalde, TX. No CS classes growing up. Now building the pipeline I never had.
Full-Time Technologist
Protected work lane. Real systems, real stakes, real constraints. Publicly documented only at the level that stays safe and useful.
Government, industry, academia. Three sectors. One person. One van.
Builder + Field Correspondent
Techs in the City is the field-reporting layer: field notes, event coverage, sprint logs, and the tools built along the way. If you are watching, reading, or listening, this is the live record of what building in public actually looks like.
San Antonio's tech scene is slept on. Not anymore.
One Brand System
The site has more surface area now, so the names need to stay clear without turning this page into a legal memo. The public structure is simple: one company, one front door, one flagship product, and one field-reporting lane.
Dungo LLC
The entity. Formal contracts, ownership, and commercial operations route here.
Dungo Digital
The front door. The website, contact path, public legal stack, and umbrella brand live here.
DigiTag
The flagship product. Interactive entertainment and community-play experiments live here.
Techs in the City
The field-reporting lane. Community coverage, sprint logs, and the public-facing media layer live here.
The Sprint System — Why 14 Days at a Time
Every 14 days is a sprint. Not a corporate framework. A personal operating system. I plan publicly, ship publicly, and log publicly. The OBS overlays on the work session streams show the sprint number and day in real time. The website board reflects what is done, in progress, and next. The voice memos from the one-hour commute get processed through the D.U.N.G.O. AI pipeline and turned into blog posts, captions, and sprint plans.
The sprint vlog is the show. Dungo Digital is the studio. The commute, the van, the screen time. All proof of work. All on the record.
Sprints started January 4, 2026. Currently on Sprint 10.
Thank You, Students
For two years I taught CS at Texas A&M San Antonio — Programming Fundamentals, Intermediate Programming, IT Ethics, DevSecOps. I walked in as an engineer and walked out knowing far more about what I actually care about. The students taught me as much as I taught them.
Teaching matters to this story, but it is no longer the active front. Spring 2026 closed cleanly: final grades submitted, materials archived, chapter documented with intention. It shaped the mission, but it does not lead the brand, the public board, or the weekly sprint priorities anymore.
Documented with respect. Archived with intention. Still part of the mission.
Yes, I Live in a Van
The one-hour commute is real. The voice memos are real. The laptop on a van desk before the day job starts is real. The life is not aesthetic. It is what building from scratch looks like when you are fully committed to the long game and not waiting on perfect conditions.
D.U.N.G.O. started as a fix for a real problem: too many ideas on the commute, no way to capture them all. Now it is the content pipeline. The van is the studio. The commute is the show. The sprints are the receipts.
Techs in the City — Where to Follow
Techs in the City is the running field log. It lives on Substack and Medium. It is where work, doctoral prep, community reporting, and builder experiments meet in public. Not polished after the fact. Logged sprint by sprint, day by day.
Work sessions stream live on YouTube with dungodigital.io as the backdrop. If you are here for the real story of building in San Antonio tech while balancing work and school, start here. Follow @dungodigital across platforms for sprint updates, field notes, and the full unfiltered build log.