About me

I'm a Hamburg-based independent open source software developer tortured artist and creative technologist mostly eukaryotic multicellular form of life operating at the intersection of language, systems thinking, and written as well as visual art.

In technology, I specialise in crafting high-quality software for UNIX and Windows platforms, with a focus on aesthetic engineering - creating expressive code and technical documentation that is as readable and composable as a well-woven poem. I take an failure-oriented approach in engineering, designing systems with primary consideration for how and when they fail as well as how to adequately address failure. I am equally open to exploring novel pathways and perspectives, particularly those that expand our modes of expression and induce the epistemic collapse of questions in need of unasking. I highly value methodical and structural approaches grounded in sound notions as well as calling the same into question when it is contradicted by empirical evidence, no matter how conventionally established the former or poor in data quality the latter may be.

I have contributed to a number of open source projects and continue to maintain a GitHub. My Curriculum Vitae is available on this website both as a PDF as well as in LaTeX.

I have a passionate, lifelong interest in languages, nurtured by the multilingual and -cultural environment that I grew up in, beginning with my native Spanish (Chilean/Andalusian dialect) and German (Northern Germany/ Hamburg dialect) as well as English (British English) at CEFR level C1 according to personal judgment and, as a classical language, Classical Arabic and a smattering of dialects of Spoken Arabic, garnished with undertones of Akkadian and Persian.

In creativity, I am drawn to weaving higher-order patterns from matters of little in the way of connection and often much in the way of contradiction, applying my tools of the trade of negation and dissociation to draw from the fields of the treasury of the unseen, from Old Mesopotamia, Classical Arabic literature, mysticism, magical realism to gender identity, non-dualism, kade, neutrinos, clinical psychology and psychiatry, and the indelibly indelicate flavour of my puzzlingly continuing existence. In literature, I greatly prefer the expression and exploration of subjectivity of experience over the mere replication of ostensible objectivity, often in the garb of an unwaveringly resolute reality that by the threshold of the merest insignificance unveils a world unseen, wherein liberation is obtained from the coexistence, not contradiction, of opposites, if one should find oneself willing to abandon undue attachment and become extinguished like a silent flame within the Pale.

Additionally, I am equally strongly drawn to systems and dynamic processes of dazzling dimensionality, laden with recurrent loops, bearing state networks that silently sing the stillness of a garden perturbed by the gradients and curves of Classical Persian music, especially those found in biology in general and endocrinology in particular as well as whatever a long walk or indulging in a film of interest may yield when serving as the means of phenomenological archaeology.

A selection of my short stories and poems and Arabic poetry translations as well as digital art and a cache of documents on experimental transfeminine endocrinology are available on this website, as is a ranked list of films and series that I've watched and, inter alia, lethal food recipes.