A blog about functional programming

My name is Arnau Abella. I’m a software engineer based in Barcelona (Spain). I have been developing software profesionally since 2017 and graduated as M.Sc. in Computer Science (“Distributed Complex Event Recognition”) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2022. Currently working in the area of distributed systems, microservices and cryptocurrencies on a large Rust team (+200 people).

Professional projects:

• Payment gateway
• Real-time Open Street Maps TSP engine
• Knowledge management system for museums & private collections
• Smartphone as remote controller for industrial cold rooms

Open source & personal projects:

• Haskell
  • Author: CPP-lang, rbst, floorplanning, parsing-by-example, and a twitch game
  • Contributor: prometheus-port
  • Talks: Parallelism and Concurrency in Haskell
• Rust
  • Author: better-default-derive, toy_atm
  • Contributor:
  • Talks:
• Scala
  • Author: equality, and DCORE
  • Contributor: fs2, and scala-pet-store
  • Talks: Generic Programming in Scala with Shapeless, and Lenses in Scala with Monacle
• Python: Stroke Prediction
• C++: Box Wrapping Problem
• Agda: Programming Language Foundation in Agda (Solutions)
• Dotfiles:
  • Arch Linux and NixOS¹
  • Keyboardio
  • Neovim

Education:

• BSc in Computer Science at Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB).
• MSc in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

About my home office:

• I have been working remotely for over 6 years.
• I usually work from home for better productivity.
• My laptop (Thinkpad p14s) is always ready for any activity outside my home.