Who writes RutaCuracao
RutaCuracao is written and maintained by Roger Pillasagua, an Ecuadorian living in Curaçao, as a personal, independent project.
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Who he is
Roger Pillasagua is Ecuadorian and lives in Curaçao. From 2020 to 2025 he worked in quality control at shrimp companies in Ecuador, where he started programming to automate his own work: at the last one, Aquagold, he wrote several of the tools its quality lab used. Seeing what the Latin American community on the island needed, with official immigration information scattered and mostly in Dutch or English, he applied that to a real problem: that is how RutaCuracao began.
For the site he built a system that compares the official Toelatingsorganisatie site every week with the last saved copy, to catch changes in requirements, fees or policies. He gathered 172 immigration rulings from the courts of the Dutch Caribbean (73 from Curaçao; the rest from Aruba, Sint Maarten and Bonaire), read in full, and he writes the guides and the videos.
Below: his quality career, what he has programmed and his education.
Quality career
- 2025 · Aquagold S.A. (Durán): quality monitor. There he programmed the tools in the next section for the reception, sensory, physical-chemical and thawing analyses.
- 2024 · Procamaronex: quality analyst: process control, documentation, traceability and documentation support for internal audits.
- 2023–2024 · Langosmar: physical-chemical analysis, such as metabisulphite in shrimp (Monier-Williams), and raw material checks.
- 2022–2023 · Omarsa: senior quality analyst, from raw material reception to shipment.
- 2021–2022 · Exposynergy: quality analyst: physical and sensory analysis in IQF, value-added products and shipment.
- 2020 · Santa Priscila: quality control in freezing: count, uniformity, weight, temperature and glazing.
What he has programmed
At Aquagold, in 2025, in Python:
- AquaCheck: checks the analysis of each raw material lot on arrival (defects, cooking, colour, whether it is ASC) and sends the release report with its photos to the quality team's WhatsApp group.
- Sensory Reports System: seven reports built from the analyses: flavours, issues, monthly summary, suppliers, ASC lots, quality incidents and a custom report.
- Data-entry bots: they move the analyses from Excel into the company's web portal and its ERP, with no retyping.
- Search tool and checker: a search tool for analyses backed by an SQLite database, and a checker of thawed product against the technical specifications.
He uses Python (pandas, PyQt5 and Tkinter, Selenium, SQLite) and packages the programs with PyInstaller to install them on other computers. Then came RutaCuracao, with its weekly check of the official site.
Education
- He studied Agricultural Engineering, with a major in agro-industry, at the Universidad Agraria del Ecuador.
- Secondary school diploma in chemistry and biology.
- Intermediate English.
At work he applied the plants' quality systems: HACCP, GMP, BRCGS and ISO 9001, and telling ASC-certified lots apart from conventional ones.
Independence
It does not belong to any law firm or government body, and it takes no money from insurers, agents or lawyers. How the site is funded is explained on How RutaCuracao is funded.
How he works
Every fact comes from a law, a policy, an official page or form, or a ruling read in full (see Methodology). Anything that could not be confirmed is marked as unconfirmed, and errors are corrected with a date in the corrections log.
RutaCuracao is general information, not legal advice: a specific case needs a lawyer.
Contact
Email: contacto@rutacuracao.com
WhatsApp: +5999 692-5640
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rogerpillasagua
Portfolio: rpillasagua95.github.io
GitHub: github.com/rpillasagua95
YouTube: youtube.com/@rutacuracao
TikTok: tiktok.com/@rutacuracao
Facebook: facebook.com/rutacuracao