[2] The Colombian author, with an early vocation as a writer, studied mechanical engineering at the University of America in his hometown, with the idea of having a trade and financial stability that would allow him his passion for literature.

[3] Soon after, his family moved to Barranquilla, where he began his literary career with his first novel, El laberinto blanco (The white labyrinth, 2014), which recreates the phenomenon of drug trafficking and prostitution.

[3] This is accomplished through the novel's main character, the lawyer Samuel Piracún, a descendant of the Muiscas, who decides to sue the Spanish crown and take the matter to the International Criminal Court.

Through the mulatta Manuela, who finds her liberation through sewing, the stories of women are woven together to complete a picture that shows that misogyny, discrimination and feminicide have been part of humanity; social crimes that have been justified and that are recounted throughout the novel.

According to Grethel Delgado, the novel is written in an "enveloping and sensual manner, with delicate erotic scenes to reflect the carnal encounters through numerous plots that help color the colonial era with an almost palpable definition".

Robayo develops his novels by constructing a story line based on real events,[3] knowing the ending beforehand, and incorporating the twists and turns and new plots that emerge from his imagination.

[13] At the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBO 2023), he presented the works recently published by Planeta Colombia: Aleluya, and A la caza del Galeón San José: el naufragio, a graphic historical novel aimed at young readers that is the first in a series.