My love for training was born when I was a kid, watching my father play basketball in my hometown court, and seeing my grandparents stay extremely active through working the land. That image led me to want their experience for myself: playing sports young, studying sport science, and then playing volleyball professionally.

The volleyball path started before university, after a national-level career in basketball. I practiced for hours until I had the skills to make volleyball my primary sport. That took me to Europe for my first season, and then back to Venezuela where I played three seasons while studying and working.

After moving to the United States I worked many different jobs, always focused on personal growth and on coming back to coaching people — which, together with technology, are the things I'm most passionate about.

The day I decided to dedicate myself to coaching people came from the worry of having to pick a specific branch of my career to make a living. Coaching athletes and coaching everyday people with no sports background were always among my top options.

Pentagon starts in October 2025, when I was offered a job at a company I have followed and admired for years: none other than Apple. That role had several limitations and, as fate would have it, I couldn't start working with them — but the person who offered it asked me to meet the requirements and be ready when the next opportunity came. The first one was learning Python, and I started. In February 2026, on my first project, the idea came up: use my training plans from every past client to build a database. Idea on top of idea, I ended up building this app, which I hope helps you.

I was inspired watching, again and again, people walk into the gym with no idea what to do to start their fitness journey; and seeing the price of personal training in the U.S. — out of reach for many — I decided to build an alternative that fits more people's budgets. I sat down to code, and today this is the result of months of hard work.