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About

Hi, I'm Itziar, a Software Engineering student at U-tad (Madrid) with a minor in Data Science & AI, graduating in June 2027. I started programming at 18 at DigiPen Bilbao, detoured through Computational Mathematics, and landed here with an unusually wide base: C++ and systems, backend services, databases of every persuasion, and the Python data/ML stack. The honest self-ratings live in ~/stack.

Work

I'm a Data Analytics Intern at MGA (remote), on the data-engineering side of a digital transformation: relational schemas, years of spreadsheet data migrated into PostgreSQL, and Spring Boot services on top. The best part is turning implicit business rules, the kind that live in people's heads and formula cells, into constraints the database enforces itself.

Mathematics

The constant thread: linear algebra for rendering pipelines, kinematics for collision detection, discrete maths for graph traversal, statistics for ML. Three years of Computational Mathematics turned that instinct into a foundation. I think about convergence and numerical stability as naturally as I think about runtime complexity.

Off the clock

• Vocational degree in music (violoncello), ABRSM Grade 8 in piano and cello. I once composed a game soundtrack in MilkyTracker for a college project, but these days it's mostly piano
• Linux daily driver (I use Arch, btw) and dotfiles for window managers and Neovim. The full setup is in ~/uses
• I've played most genres at some point, but always come back to the same four: Dofus, Stellaris, Warframe, and Cities: Skylines 2. Side quests into other games end up in ~/log
• Mostly a non-fiction reader, currently retraining the fiction habit, one book at a time
• My tinkering happens on hardware I already own: the self-hosted server and a Raspberry Pi reborn as a retro gaming box
• Languages are a standing hobby: English since childhood (C2), native Spanish, French in progress, and Japanese on the someday list

What I'm up to right now lives in ~/now. There's a CV if you want the concise version, and if any of this overlaps with something you're building, or you just have strong opinions about window managers or city builders, get in touch.