User:Mlliarm

Who
Michail Liarmakopoulos (Μιχάλης Λιαρμακόπουλος) is a Greek mathematician and an (aspiring) computer scientist, born at Marousi, Greece on 1981.

Why
APL is fun and the APL community is very friendly and open-minded.

He firmly believes that APL is a great tool to teach mathematics and in general to reason with.

What

 * Software developer in the Big Data realm with a mathematics and physics background.


 * Pythonista with an interest in functional (Scheme), declarative (Prolog, SQL), iversonian (APL, J) and rapid numerics (PARI/GP) languages.


 * In his free time he enjoys going out with good friends trying out the local cuisine, reading books in English or Greek and Wikipedia lemmas in languages where he's still at a level ∊ ]A0, A1[, such as: Español, Catalá, French, Русский, but which he'd love to learn bit by bit, expanding thus the interval to the semi-closed interval ]A0, A1].


 * Finally, he loves diving every day deeper and deeper in APL, as well as creating small programming projects that combine not so widely used languages (Scheme, Prolog, APL, J, PARI/GP) that solve some weird problem in mathematics or physics.


 * Is responsible for the "APL ∊ BCN" APL user group based in Barcelona, Spain.

Where

 * His hometown is Patras, a nice city in south-west Greece on the Peloponnese.


 * Spent the most important years of his life at the island of Crete where he studied Physics at a bachelors' level and graduated at 2010.


 * After a short trip in Europe during the period 2011-2013 he returned to Patras. There he studied Mathematics at a masters' level and after that he got a job at InSyBio, a bioinformatics startup as a scientific python developer.


 * On late December of 2019 he got a job offer from Webhelp Spain, and moved to Barcelona, Catalonia along with his partner and their cat.

Books

 * You can see his Goodreads profile here.

Name

 * Most Greek friends call him Μιχάλη and most non Greek friends call him Mike.
 * In Spanish "Michail" is pronounced "Mitsael", which he finds pretty funny and uses it when he has to introduce himself to a local.

Contact

 * Github: mlliarm
 * Discord: milia#0919
 * Twitter: @mlliarm