Mara Restrepo

Mara Restrepo edits the Fullimedia technology desk. She has covered consumer technology for the better part of a decade, with a reporter's allergy to press-release stenography and a particular interest in the gap between what a company demonstrates on stage and what actually ships to ordinary users.

Her beat is the technology people actually touch: the apps on the home screen, the AI tools that are quietly rewriting workflows, the privacy settings nobody reads, and the devices that have to survive a real week in a real pocket. Mara has tested hundreds of products and is more interested in whether something is useful in March than whether it was impressive in a September keynote.

At Fullimedia she commissions and edits the tech beat to a simple test: a reader should finish a story more capable than they started, not more confused. She is especially focused on applied AI — separating the genuinely useful from the venture-funded theater — and on consumer privacy, where she believes most coverage is either alarmist or asleep.

Mara is based in Medellín. When she is not pressure-testing a new messaging app she is usually arguing that good software should explain itself.