My original background was very close to the hardware: processor architectures, hardware design and low level embedded software without any operating system. I'm also fascinated by operating system design, compilers and programming languages design.

I started my career as a hardware engineer, desiging safety critical for the LHC accelerator at CERN.

I then specialized in embedded software developement... and slowly made my way up to modern C++ for different aplications.

Now that I moved to more abstracted software at the application level, I still think this "low level" background really enables to see the full picture and what's going on under the hood, making me a more complete engineer.