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Hi! I’m Alex. I work as a data engineer currently for SmartBroker here in Berlin, Germany. I’m in my mid 30s, married, and we’ve got two dogs: Ruger and Pippa.
I’m half East Indian and half Yugoslavian. I call Portland, Oregon home – well I used to. I don’t know if we will ever leave the EU. More on this in a post in the future. Stay tuned. But anyway, I like computers, sci-fi, my dogs, traveling europe with my wife, and Taco Bell, Mountain Dew, and just eating good food.
I set up this blog to post my thoughts and give back. I’ve learned a lot and wanted to share it with the rising generation of engineers. Some of the posts will be political, personal, about current events, etc., but I will also have many posts that relate to careers, programming, and data engineering.
Myself and our female dog, Pippa who is about 6.
Myself and our male dog, Ruger who is about 7. 
(If anyone knows how to make it such that their dogs never age and live forever do get in touch, please!)
My custom-built workstation
Specs:
CPU : AMD 5600X @ Noctua HSF
RAM : 64GB DDR4
GPU : AMD 6800
STORAGE : 1TB NVMe
STORAGE : 6.4TB PCI-e Intel SSD
COOLING : Way too many Noctua fans
PSU : 850W modular
OS : Fedora 39
WINDOW MANAGER: i3 (X11) / Sway (Wayland)
EDITOR : Neovim
Thanks for visiting the blog, stay tuned there’s a lot more to come!
And lastly here’s what my work setup often looks like 
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