👋 About Me

Hi, I’m Bruno.

By day I work in data, as a data engineer of some kind and usually in some sort of fintech (I don’t necessarily have a preference but things seem to line up that way). That’s a slightly fancy way of saying I spend my time making sure the numbers a company bets its decisions on are actually the right numbers in some way (this is how I explain my job to my grandma and I still have no success). Before the corporate world got its hooks in me I did some teaching, and I never really stopped: a big part of what I enjoy now is helping other people get good at this stuff and explaining the why behind the how. Somewhere before all of that I read Physics at Cambridge (Jesus College), which mostly taught me that the hard part of any problem is breaking things down into smaller problems first before you can even think about solving them.

🛠️ Things I’ve Built or Done for No Particularly Good Reason

Some people unwind by stepping away from the computer. I sadly don’t mostly, though I probably should. Ricing my Neovim config for no real productivity reason and then tearing it all down the next week, or poking at assembly on a Raspberry Pi just to feel what the machine is really doing down there. Mostly, though, I build slightly unhinged side projects:

• A personal finance setup that that now moved from me doing most of the decision making to letting (insert flavour of the month name here) LLM handle it.
• A little home server for self-hosting whatever I feel like breaking that week.
• A growing pile of tooling, ideas, books and notes of all the things I say I will eventually do one day but (so far) never actually get to it.

🌍 When I’m Not Being a Nerd (I’m Still Being a Nerd)

My curiosity doesn’t really respect the line between “work” and “hobby”. I fall down rabbit holes in linguistics, philosophy and comparative religion, history, and also anything with a good bit of physics or maths waiting at the bottom (though as the years go by I stray further and further away from the space).

And I follow AI (far too closely given I should be prescribed LESS screen time). I test new models the day they drop, keep more pro subscriptions than my bank “adviser” strictly approves of, and I’m endlessly curious about where all this is heading. I’m not a doomer about it, for sure, but I keep a sceptical eye on the hype and the marketing. There’s something genuinely paradigm shifting here but it’s not all unicorns and rainbows.