About me
I was born in Mexico in 1999, and spent most of my early life there. I spent a year in Japan as an exchange student during high school, a truly lifechanging experience that set me on a course to get out of my home continent. I moved to Canberra in 2018 to pursue an engineering degree but switched to computing after some convincing by a good friend, which ended up being the best advice I’ve gotten in my life.
I spent my next few years finishing university at the ANU, then stayed in Canberra to work at Countersight, where I am now. Over time, I have grown to really enjoy the quiet, slow life of a Canberran. I’m hoping to spend a great deal of time here.
In Mexico, I worked as a waiter. When I moved to Australia, I was hired by the ANU as a student ambassador. The job was rewarding, and gave me an interesting look into the administrative behemoth that is the university’s college of engineering and cs.
Along the way I was hired as a workshop demonstrator by the same college, teaching first low-level programming and then an introductory course to cryptography and computer security. I found the opportunity to teach very gratifying, particularly due to being able to teach topics I am passionate about and attempt to instill the same excitement for the material to students.
I am currently working at Countersight, an infosec company. My job there divides into embedded security research, red-team consulting, golang dev, writing firmware, and devops work.
I try to keep myself occupied with productive work that involves some sort of output. Beyond software projects I’ve been recently interested in the following things:
- Custom keyboards: I’ve taken up custom keyboard building as a way to familiarize myself with DIY hardware, circuit board design, and working with microcontrollers. So far I’ve been able to build myself a lily58 clone and I’m hoping to iterate on it with some personal touches as soon as I’ve used it for long enough to know what those touches are.
- Coffee: Very unique, I know. Australian enthusiasm for coffee has a habit of gripping you and not letting go. I use a La Pavoni Expo 2015 hand-powered espresso machine every morning for my wake-up coffee, but have ended up also amassing a bit of a collection of other brewers. I particularly like my siphon brewer, and take it out every time I have guests over. It makes a good coffee and is good at entertaining guests.
- Japanese traditional lacquering: On my last trip back to Japan, I encountered some very striking lacquered art in Aomori prefecture that I immediately fell in love with. I am slowly gearing up to make some myself, but it’s been a slow process. It can be hard (read expensive) to import the required materials to Canberra.
Studying art, history, film, literature, and poetry are also a large part of my daily life whenever possible. I am particularly interested in pre-socratic philosophy and abstract photograms at the moment.
I try to keep this page up to date, but inevitably interests change and I find new interesting projects to pursue. Track me down in person to know for certain what I am up to.