There are moments when you feel the need to stop, look back, and ask yourself: “So, what do I want to say now?” This is one of those moments. I’m here, sitting in front of my screen, with a brand new website and that particular feeling you get when you start something that could become important. Or maybe not. And that’s okay too.
My name is Alex Ghirelli, I’m a Senior Software Engineer with over ten years of code behind me, but this space won’t just be a showcase of my technical skills. It’ll be something more intimate, more authentic. A place where technology meets life, where algorithms blend with travels, late-night reflections, and lessons learned between one deployment and another. Because in the end, we’re much more than our LinkedIn skills, aren’t we?
I’ve been asking myself for a long time whether starting a blog made sense. We live in the era of lightning-fast social media, endless threads, 30-second videos. Everything is fast, everything is immediate, everything is already forgotten by the time you scroll to the next screen. Yet, there’s something special about writing, about taking the time to build a thought, to give it shape and substance. This blog was born from the desire to slow down, to dig deeper, to share not only what I do, but how I think. And maybe, along the way, to understand some things better myself.
You’ll find technical articles, sure. We’ll talk about scalable architectures, microservices, that magical moment when you finally solve a bug that’s been tormenting you for days and you feel, for a moment, like the king of the world. But you’ll also find more: reflections on travels that changed my perspective, thoughts on creativity in our work, maybe some stories about how you can turn a passion for small aircraft into metaphors about software design. Or simply what I thought while watching the sunset after a particularly intense day.
I don’t know exactly where this journey will take us yet. And maybe that’s the beauty of it. What I do know is that I want to build something genuine, a space where readers can find not just information, but also inspiration, connection, maybe a knowing smile at shared experiences. I want this to be a place where it’s okay to admit we don’t know everything, that sometimes code drives us crazy, that other times it gives us priceless satisfaction.
If you’re here, we probably share something: curiosity about technology, love for well-written code, or simply an interest in the stories hidden behind every project, behind every person. Maybe you too, like me, think that our work is much more than a sequence of commits and pull requests. It’s problem solving, it’s creativity, it’s collaboration. It’s finding elegance in the simplest solution. It’s also frustration, liters of coffee, and that feeling when everything finally works.
I have to be honest: this isn’t my first attempt at keeping a blog. Over the years I’ve tried several times, with initial enthusiasm and then, inevitably, with silence taking over. It’s never been easy for me to maintain consistency in writing. Life runs fast, projects pile up, priorities change, and that space you carved out to put your thoughts down on paper becomes smaller and smaller, until it disappears. But here I am, once again, with the same desire to try. Maybe this is the right time. Maybe not. But I’ve learned that the important thing isn’t perfection, it’s authenticity. And even if this blog becomes a container of scattered thoughts, written when I really feel the need, that’s fine.
So, stay connected. In the next articles we’ll explore architectural patterns together, talk about tools I use daily, but also about those little epiphanies that arrive when you least expect them. Maybe over a coffee in Rome, or while flying over landscapes at 3000 feet. Because the best ideas often come when you’re not looking for them.
This is just the beginning. A digital “hello,” a virtual handshake. Because in the end, the most beautiful code we can write is that of human connections.