Welcome

You have reached my personal website where I occasionally post about technical stuff.

I’m a Spanish computer engineer interested in low level software, computer architecture, high performance computing and more recently, git.

I’m a Memory Consistency Models aficionado. Early on I took an interesting in parallel programming and concurrency which accidentally¹: spiraled in me spending more hours than I care to admit in understanding weak memory models such as ARM’s. I have had the luck to put this a bit into practice during my Master’s Thesis development, where I worked on hardware optimizations for Store-Store reordering allowed by RISC-V’s RVWMO.

My original passion was Pure Mathematics but I got into Computer Engineering after seeing what academia was all about. I have been an open source enthusiast and running Linux ever since.

I’m currently working as a Verification Engineer of the Load-Store Unit of RISC-V CPU cores.

Personal setup

Like every computer engineering student, I ran Arch Linux for a while (very happily so, until I got an Nvidia discrete GPU for learning CUDA gaming). I’m now running Fedora in both my laptop (an Slimbook Pro X 15²) and my desktop.

On the Desktop Environment side, I have been using KDE for the last couple of years. I previously used i3 for some years but whenever I had to lend my laptop for a couple of minutes to somebody else it was an ordeal… I figured KDE must be very good if marcan uses it!

Last but perhaps most importantly: I use neovim. The fun fact about this is that I accidentally started using vim when I taught myself C++ off of a book a classmate lent me after installing Ubuntu for the first time. I didn’t know anything about the editor wars at the time, I just googled “code editor linux”, found emacs confusing and chose vim. Months later in my first programming class in University, I got the “Wow, you run vim!?” question :)

This website is built with hugo with a custom theme. I previously used Jekyll and the Chirpy theme but I always had issues with Ruby dependencies breaking.

You might already know about Ernesto’s personal blog ecomaikgolf.com³. This site is a thing mostly thanks to him which step-by-step convinced me of securing my own domain, getting a VPS among other things. Go pay him a visit, you will not regret it :)

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