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-title: "Hello friend 🐱‍👤"
-date: 2021-08-23T17:52:07+02:00
+title: "About"
+date: 2022-05-21T19:52:54+02:00
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+  - personal
+  - introduction
   - about
-  - config
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-## About This Site
+This site shares a bit of informal documentation and blog-based record keeping
+reflecting my day to day activities. Hopefully it's a good mix of technical and
+just-for-fun discussion. Professionally I am a mixed-signal circuit designer
+which means I compose integrated circuits mostly for sensors whose signals are
+then processed for interesting features. Besides that I enjoy a bit of casual
+programming as a hobby which is now predominantly based on python which makes
+it easy to share and adapt code.
 
-This site shares a bit of informal documentation and more blog-based record
-keeping. Providing commentary on design decisions should be just as useful as
-some of the technical documentation however included in my repositories.
 
-### Contact
 
-You can reach me at `lieuwe at leene dot dev`.
+# research interests
 
-## My Setup
+# Proficiencies
 
-I mainly use RHEL flavours of linux having both CentOS and Fedora machines. Most
-hosted services run on CentOS 8 at the moment albeit they are approaching
-end-of-life. Overall the package repository for CentOS 7/8 is just right. I
-rarely need to compile anything from source and packages are very stable.
-I will eventually migrate to Fedora completely which is where I operate my
-development environment.
+I have well over 10 years of design experience using Cadence and Seimens (Mentor Graphics)
+EDA design suite extensively from process-development-kit integration to mixed-signal
+design verification. Having predominantly designed mixed-signal instrumentation chips most of my
+proficiency lies with the Virtuoso analogue design flow. However I have historically
+worked in smaller design groups of 5-10 people where you need to be familiar with
+the entire development process for a device from start to finish touching on process selection,
+tool configuration, and production planning. Fortunately  
 
-This is a list of my most used self-hosted services:
- - Gitea: Git server with web interface for repository mirrors and personal repos
- - Plex: multi-media hosting service for streaming movies and tv-shows
- - NextCloud: Cloud storage for synchronizing and sharing files
- - Cockpit: Web base administration portal managing linux boxes
- - RoundCube: Web based email client
- - Postfix/Dovcot: Email stack providing SMTP for my domain
- - NGINX: HTTP server serving as proxy for internal web services
- - Danbooru: Ruby-on-rails based image hosting and tagging service
+with ADE/Measto verification
+but I am quite comfortable with skill and any Cadence know how for speeding up design development.
 
-There are several others that I have tried but these really have been the things
-I relied on the most in the past 5 years or so. I think the only thing that is
-possibly missing from this list is possibly the equivalent of a centralized LDAP
-service but I simply haven't had to manage more than handful of users.
+## Programming languages
 
-Currently I develop quite a bit of python utilities for scraping, labelling, and
-managing media in an automated fashion. In part I am preparing data for one of
-my long term projects which is related to image classification based on
-structural decomposition rather than textural features. The main idea here is
-to analyse and extract structure in an image before performing in-depth analysis
-such that said analysis is most specific to its context.
+ - Python
+ - Skill
+ - C++
+ - Bash
+ - Matlab