About

VC

Valeria Conde

Law · Code · Literature

I'm a lawyer, developer, and writer drawn to the places where these three worlds overlap. My work sits at the edge of legal systems and technology, and my writing explores what it means to live in both.

By training I studied law, which gave me a way of reading the world closely and arguing precisely. Along the way I taught myself to code — first out of curiosity, then out of necessity, now out of genuine love. I find that both disciplines demand the same thing: the ability to hold complexity without flinching.

Literature has always been the third thread. I write fiction and essays, mostly in the margins of everything else. I believe good writing and good code share a grammar: clarity, economy, surprise.


Law

Legal research, tech regulation, and the intersection of law with emerging technology. I am particularly interested in how legal frameworks adapt — or fail to adapt — to new digital realities.

Code

Full-stack development, with a preference for clean interfaces and thoughtful architecture. This very site is one of my ongoing experiments in building things I actually want to use.

Literature

Fiction, personal essays, and literary criticism. Drawn to writers who take ideas seriously and sentences even more so.


Timeline

2026

Launched valeriaconde.com — an ongoing experiment.

2025

Traveled to Tokyo, Lisbon, and Mexico City. Knitted three sweaters.

2024

Fell properly in love with tennis. Started playing three times a week.

2023

Shipped my first real project in production code. Terrifying. Exhilarating.

2022

Taught myself to code — started with Python, moved to TypeScript.

2020

Finished law school. Graduated into a very strange world.

2018

First trip alone. Arrived in Buenos Aires with one bag and no plan.

2016

Started university. Chose law. Also started keeping a reading log.