About Me
Hi!
Welcome to my personal webpage. This is the space where I rant, accumulate notes on various topics that interest me and log the things I do. In general, this place is where I regain a sense of personal joy from the collection of walled gardens that is becoming internet.
Work
I’ve been a scientist, a Big Data developer (Teralco/Devcenter) and more recently a Data Engineer (Opentrends). For the last years my stack has been Python, SQL, Pyspark in AWS Cloud environments, but also enjoy and have worked with R and command-line utilities/Bash, mostly for bioinformatic tools. Lately I’ve been developing a small hobby project in Elixir with Phoenix/Liveview, which is a joy to program in.
About the PhD bit: In 2021 I earned a degree in Cognitive Science and Language as part of the Cognitive Biology of Language group, led by Cedric Boeckx (University of Barcelona). I studied the evolution of the Homo sapiens cognitive profile relative to other human species (Neanderthals, Denisovans), from genotype to expression data to phenotype - or at least that was the ambition. Nowadays I barely keep up with the field, to be honest, though I still love to hear about it from time to time.
Came here to see my CV? I keep a generic one around, but feel free to drop me a mail at: sanyi[dot]personal [at] Google’s mail service.com. Note, however, that I don’t work for:
[1] Fossil fuel companies: just take a look around this website and you’ll see climate change is a major issue for me.
[2] Bodyshopping IT/tech consulting companies. It might be common practice in Spain, but I you can’t keep afloat just with products of your own I question your ability to thrive (among other problems, financial and ethical, with that business model).
Also, a salary range would be much appreciated, thank you! But just referencing the fact that you saw this website is already enough to garantee a meeting.
Interests
Apart from the professional stuff, in my free time I like to play bass - not playing much lately though. I try to expose myself to different music every day, with uneven success. You can see how that is going here.
At other levels, I enjoy: running, wikipedia rabbit holes, mate, dogs, raw liquorice, sci-fi, boulder climbing, ecology and philosophy, rpgs (virtual and pen-and-paper kinds), plants. I collaborated for a while in climate change activism, but haven’t done much lately. The situation is still dire though - it’s not as much a change of convition than a question of energy.
Blogposts, log & wiki
I log several of my activities as a form of self-accountability. Here’s why.
From time to time I like to write posts about my former research field, technical tips and courses. I don’t add many these days, rather preferring to expand my personal wiki instead, but occasionally more fully formed posts still might end up there.
What’s new?
02G06Back here! It’s been a couple months without updating the website. I got into caving but otherwise didn’t do much: no reading/listening to/playing music or else. I’ll be updating this website (sparely) during the following days.
You can see the historic of these status posts here
Disclosure:* I don’t collect visitor data, and use no LLM assistance (ChatGPT or else), except when explicitely disclosed. All content here is purely human, personal and mine. Welcome!