About me

I’m Alex. I work in systems test automation and I’m moving toward embedded software and low-level security. I want to be closer to the hardware, further from the abstraction, and eventually working on the kind of systems where the software and the physical world are hard to separate.

I got into this because I wanted to understand what’s actually happening, not just what works. Reading datasheets, tracing failures, building things small enough that every part is visible. Most of what I know came from breaking something and then having to figure out why.

Right now I spend most of my time in C, C++, and Rust, working through embedded systems, bare-metal experiments, and security-adjacent work like fuzzing and secure coding practice. I also spend time on hardware repair and electronics because I find it useful to hold the real constraints in my hands.

Long term, I want to be designing and reasoning about systems at the architecture level, where decisions about hardware, firmware, and software interact. That’s what I’m building toward. The blog and projects are where I document the work along the way.