Software Engineering student (minor in Data Science & AI) based in Madrid. Currently interning at MGA, migrating spreadsheet-based workflows into PostgreSQL and Spring Boot. I also build game engines, over-engineer a home server, and turned a Raspberry Pi into a retro console.https://itziar.dev/https://itziar.dev/notes/alphanumeric-classification/https://itziar.dev/notes/alphanumeric-classification/How I scoped down an ambitious licence plate recognition pipeline to a focused CNN that classifies 36 alphanumeric characters — and what the confusion matrix taught me about practical error handling.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://itziar.dev/notes/firearm-homicides/https://itziar.dev/notes/firearm-homicides/A Tableau data visualization project exploring the relationship between firearm laws and homicide rates across U.S. states from 1976 to 2023.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://itziar.dev/notes/first-game-engine/https://itziar.dev/notes/first-game-engine/What I learned building a C++ 2D game engine with ECS, SDL2, and Lua scripting: the decisions that worked, the ones that didn't, and why I'd do it again.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://itziar.dev/notes/flight-data-pipeline/https://itziar.dev/notes/flight-data-pipeline/Building a containerised Spark cluster that ingests OpenFlights data into four different stores, unifies them as permanent SQL tables, and survives three instructive bugs.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://itziar.dev/notes/python-odm/https://itziar.dev/notes/python-odm/How I built a custom Object-Document Mapper for MongoDB and Redis in Python — the design decisions, the tradeoffs, and what I'd do differently.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://itziar.dev/notes/vacumcite/https://itziar.dev/notes/vacumcite/A UX design project for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment website, built as a group project for the Fundamentals of UX course at U-tad.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT