I trained as an aerospace engineer, which is a long way of saying I learned to be honest about loads. A wing doesn’t care how clever your drawing is — it cares whether the structure underneath can carry the day it’s asked to.
That idea has followed me everywhere since. I came up sketching airframes and stress paths, and somewhere along the way I realised the part I loved wasn’t the aircraft specifically — it was the discipline. Decide what carries the load. Make everything else defer to it. Don’t decorate a joint you haven’t justified.
Where I’m from
My roots run between two places that, on paper, have nothing in common: the volcanic rock and laurel forests of Madeira, and the long, low winter light of Sweden. One gave me basalt and the Atlantic; the other gave me snow, timber, and a particular fondness for things made plainly and made to last. If you’ve noticed the colours and the tilework on this site — that’s where they come from.
What I’m doing now
These days I’m heads-down on a company I’m not quite ready to talk about. It’s early, it’s technical, and it has the same bones as everything else I care about: get the structure right and the rest gets easier. When there’s something to show, you’ll find it under Projects and Writing first.
In the meantime I keep a handful of things open on GitHub, write the occasional note when I figure something out, and am always glad to compare notes with people building hard things. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.