Full-stack engineer & professional illusionist

Engineering the
impossible

I'm Fermin F. Garcia. I build reliable software and design live illusions — two disciplines, one obsession with experiences that feel like magic.

Fermin Garcia
The Zig Zag
On stage with my mentor, Valdino

Two crafts, one discipline

Engineering and magic look like opposites. One is built on logic, precision, and clarity; the other on mystery, misdirection, and the impossible.

In practice, they're the same craft.

I've chased that idea since I performed my first trick for a 3rd-grade class in Corpus Christi — later apprenticing under a professional magician named Valdino, then carrying the same discipline through the U.S. Air Force.

Whether I'm architecting a system or escaping a straitjacket, the work is identical: sweat the details no one sees so the result feels effortless.