About me

Hello! My name is Manuel, and I am based in Granada, Spain. I work in integration, building the middleware that lets different systems talk to each other. My CV is available here.

My background is in physics. I started out in chemistry before switching, having decided physics was a better fit. Back in the pre-LLM days, programming was still something you could spend long hours wrestling with, and the intersection of physics and computing felt genuinely exciting: running simulations, cleaning up raw data from the lab, finding a decent fit, figuring out how to plot the thing so it actually said something. That was the part of physics I enjoyed most.

Outside of work, I read a lot, mostly around Slavic history, culture and politics. Movies are another constant; my taste leans towards the slow and contemplative, but honestly I’ll watch anything. Cooking is mostly vegan in my kitchen, with some baking when time allows. Coffee has become a serious hobby — one that conveniently aligns with the other hobby of drinking large amounts of it.

I’m an active member of the Wikimedia community, though not as much as I’d like. I contribute edits, photographs, corrections and translations whenever I can. My most-read contribution so far has been translating and expanding the Spanish article on the Gombe Chimpanzee War.

On my blog I mostly write about software and integration, with the occasional detour into whatever else has caught my attention.

For any inquiries, feel free to reach me via email or on LinkedIn.