/now

A /now page — a snapshot of what I'm currently focused on. Last updated August 2025.

Work & Career

Working as a Senior Software Engineer at Hexagon AB in Zürich, focusing on distributed systems and backend architecture — building robust, scalable systems for high throughput and reliability.

Learning & Development

• Deepening understanding of consensus algorithms (Raft, Byzantine fault tolerance)
• Exploring database internals — LSM trees, storage engine optimization
• Advanced distributed systems patterns and real-world tradeoffs
• Haskell projects to strengthen functional programming skills

Personal Projects

• Rewriting this site with Astro 5.x and a new design system
• Experimenting with NixOS configurations across machines
• Building learning projects in Haskell, C++, and Rust
• Maintaining a personal knowledge base in org-mode

Reading & Research

• Database system internals and storage optimization
• Distributed consensus protocols and practical implementations
• Modern C++ patterns and performance
• Functional programming and category theory

Technologies

• Rust — Systems programming and high-performance applications
• Go — Backend services and distributed systems
• Haskell — Functional programming paradigms
• NixOS / Nix — Declarative system and environment configuration

Based in Zürich, Switzerland.