Hi, I’m Misael. If I had to sum myself up in one word, it’d be philomath — Greek for “lover of learning”: a perpetual, self-taught learner driven to understand how and why things work.
1 About me
By day I work for SnapCorp, part of ICE (NYSE) — the group behind the New York Stock Exchange — on the ICE Fraud Monitor product. Most of my formal career has run along those lines: Python, finance, wallets, security and anti-fraud, almost always for clients in the US and the UK. What I like most is architecture — figuring out how the pieces fit before writing the first line — and right now I’m finishing the Claude Certified Architect certification.
By night is where I have the most fun. That’s where the projects nobody asked for show up, usually because I got curious about “wait, how does this actually work?” and couldn’t let it go:
- node-vmm — I got obsessed with making a VM boot almost as fast as a process; it became microVMs in milliseconds on KVM, Hyper-V and Hypervisor.framework, with no QEMU and no Docker.
- gocracker — the same itch in Go, this time a production sandbox with copy-on-write snapshots and warm pools.
- fastfn — my own FaaS, because I wanted to really understand what’s behind “serverless” (and not depend on anyone else’s).
- memoirs — long-term memory for agents, running locally on SQLite, with hybrid search and Ebbinghaus-style forgetting.
- gosafemode — a platform that crawls and dissects real scams and phishing.
- aeroctl — and, out of sheer stubbornness, I taught a Gigabyte keyboard to speak Linux by reverse-engineering its protocol byte by byte.
…and several more that never made it to the blog. Most start as “thirty minutes of curiosity” and turn into a whole weekend.
I’m also a big fan of languages and cultures: I speak Spanish and English, some German, I’m learning Japanese, and every so often I pick up another just for the fun of it. I’m especially drawn to Europe and Asia — so much so that I’m planning a trip right now.
2 About this blog
It doesn’t have a single theme, and I doubt it ever will: I write about whatever I’m turning over at the moment — low-level systems, security, reverse engineering, psychology (I’m fascinated by Kahneman and Tversky’s cognitive biases: how and why we decide badly), and now and then a bigger question about where all of this is heading.
I try to write things the way I wish they’d been explained to me: without assuming you already know everything, without pretending I know everything, and showing the real process — mistakes included — instead of just the tidy result. If something “hard” can be told simply, that’s exactly the kind of post I most enjoy writing.
Does any of this resonate — or do you want to point out where I got it wrong? Drop me a line.