About

Welcome, dear traveler, to my small place on the World Wide Web. This is a diary of system tales I have collected over the flow of time. Anything I publish here is for the love of the craft, and content is 100% organic, artisanal, handwritten nonsense.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Introductions seem to be in order. Hello, reader. I’m Katharina. I live in Switzerland, and I’m in my early twenties. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, board games, travel, swimming, and, of course, tinkering with the heaps of animated sand we call computers. Nowadays, I’m a Senior Systems Engineer at a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firm. Before that, I built and shipped software to 20% of the world’s population at $BIG_TECH. My professional exposure has reached from splicing cassettes of fiber pigtails in a new DC for a week straight, to squeezing microseconds of tick-to-trade latency, and anything in between.

Pour yourself a hot beverage and enjoy this collection of anecdotes I have curated during my own adventures. My intent is to share some notes and thoughts here from time to time, mostly technical in nature.