When I was in high school, my physics teacher told me about a particle experiment, called Super-Kamiokande. It is a giant water tank in a mine under a remote Japanese mountain and it detects ubiquitous yet elusive particles, called neutrinos. Once I heard about it, I thought that I had to go there. I also learnt that physics wasn't just about friction or inclined planes. Instead it's about challenging our beliefs and finding better ways to describe reality.

I am captivated by challenges and that's why I undertook a long educational path in physics: bachelor, master (cum laude), and finally a PhD in theoretical and experimental particle physics. I joined the Super-Kamiokande collaboration and had the chance to visit the experiment, multiple times!

I love physics, but in all this time I realised that I enjoy solving problems, designing algorithms, and optimizing solutions more then anything; learning new tools in the process is a bonus. These challenges are ubiquitous in the real world, like neutrinos, and some of them are much more pressing, like climate change.

It's time to put my toolbox worth years of coding experience to good use in the real world. What's in my toolbox? C++, python, SQL, and much more.