I'm Moritz, a software engineer living in Bolzano, Italy. Getting here involved a fairly roundabout route — which is either a sign of curiosity or indecisiveness, depending on who you ask.

The original plan was to become a pilot. That ended at a medical when a very mild red-green colour deficiency — barely noticeable in daily life — turned out to be a hard disqualifier. I did eventually get a private pilot licence, which is currently gathering dust — but that's a when-not-if situation.

With aviation off the table, I studied economics in Münster, which was fine. Then I discovered physics, which was better. A bachelor's later I moved to Tübingen for the master's, then spent a second year at the University of Trento writing my thesis — hunting for antihelium signals in data from the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station. No significant signs for antimatter in our galaxy found, but a degree was.

These days I write C++ professionally, and spend my free evenings on personal projects with AI tools like Claude Code. This blog is where I write about both — the projects, the physics, and whatever else seems worth putting into words.

Outside of work I run, ride a road bike, freedive, and occasionally do triathlons. The theme, if there is one, seems to be accumulating hobbies until you're mediocre at all of them.