I’m a senior comp.sci for an airline. Technically my title is Solutions Architect, Airline Operations (but I still write code, because design is code is design). I specialise in airline operations, I love the deep arcana of pushing metal around the sky. Nowadays I’m writing mostly Javascript (React) and in the Akka framework for events / reactive programming in Java. We deploy our containers into AWS ECS (soon AKS).

I recently submitted my PhD dissertation (June 2019). My PhD is in the field of Classics and Ancient History. The title of my thesis is Landscape and geographical space in T. Livius ab urbe condita. Yeah there’s Latin in it and I do my own translations, as a PhD student is expected. My favourite Latin poets are Ovid and Propertius.

I wrote my entire thesis in pandoc/markdown and generated the PDF from that using LaTeχ, bibteχ, and xeteχ using memoir, using gitlab.com ci-runners. I’ve got a complete thesis-build project which I will open source once I extract my actual thesis text from it.