I’m a software engineer, a husband and a father of four. I currently work at Mireo on a distributed spatiotemporal database called SpaceTime.

My interests are in systems programming, database engines, distributed systems, network protocols, programming languages & tools (a non-exaustive list).

I like solving problems by writing code, seeking the simplest and most elegant way to do it.

I don’t particularly like searching for bugs, so I try very hard to avoid making them in the first place, by repeatedly simplifying things, avoiding mutations and shared state, making things correct by construction, and by keeping code local, readable and obvious.

I like to build systems from robust foundations all the way to the top by composing well-defined and reusable components. When doing so, I hope to be less dumb next year than now, so I try to make systems easy to change, improve and extend as I learn more about the domain and the environment it lives in.

I like to make tools for myself and others to automate processes, speed up day-to-day work, make simple things easy and hard things possible.

Besides programming, I like to teach and explain things to others. I also really like to read books, write, cook, walk outdoors, and do things with my hands.