About

Specflare is my personal blog that I use to keep track of my projects and notes related to my field of work.

As a Professional Software Engineer and general problem solver, I’ve been practicing this craft for more than 13 years and still learning something new everyday about it.

I started my professional career back in 2008 as a C++ Backend Engineer, working for Ubisoft. Then, after 2 years I moved to another company developing software for the Telecom industry (Switches, Routers, Firewalls), working there for a long time (~7 years). This is where I got deeply into the Linux internals, Networking Protocols and Security.

I am currently working as a Lead/Senior Software Engineer for VIAVI Solutions, doing mostly Java/Scala, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes/Helm and related technlogies. Here I am working on a microservices-based application running in Kubernetes that ingests statistics about network traffic at a rate of 5M+ records per minute and provides different charts and analytics using Machine Learning.

I enjoy sharing the things I learned so you can get a head start.

Feel free to contact me if you find my blog useful or you are interested in any kind of collaboration.

Keywords:

Linux, Java, Scala, Networking, Kafka, Spark, Spring, Hibernate, AWS, Kubernetes.

Hobbies:

I like travelling (especially before the pandemic), hiking and jogging. I also play some old-school video games (like Starcraft 2 or Warcraft 3) from time to time.