$ 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 streaming data pipelines and event-driven applications. So, in a certain way, I climbed the ladder.

Coming from an early start in hardware, I like my software to be rigorous. I naturally lean toward practices grounded in mathematics—using tools that eliminate ambiguity and prioritize reasoning over debugging—but the realities of programming in the large keep my feet on the ground. I’m a builder at heart, just one with a deep, enduring fascination for theory and logic.

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.