$ whoami

These pages are by me, Alex Moreno. I was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain.

A formally trained electrical engineer and a functional programmer by trade, I inadvertently worked my way up from hardware design to kernel and low-level programming of embedded systems to building real-time streaming data pipelines and event-driven applications. So, in a certain way, I climbed the ladder.

I believe that software engineering demands the same rigor as other engineering disciplines. This requires formal approaches that are grounded in mathematics to eliminate ambiguity but—crucially—scale to manage complexity in programming-in-the-large. Setting practical concerns aside, I have a general interest in logic, a sweepingly broad subject that touches philosophy, mathematics, and computer science.

Since childhood, one of my most defining traits has been my passion for ‘peeking under the hood’ of things, and I remember being mesmerized by what at the time looked like magic, microchips. By a curious twist of fate I ended up living in the mecca of semiconductors, Taiwan, but for very unrelated reasons.

If you want to reach out to me with ideas, projects, or just want to say hi, I go by moleike—my anglicised Chinese name—on the usual places.