WHOAMI

Login: alex                               Name: Alexandre McLean
Directory: /home/alex                     Shell: /bin/zsh
On since: Nov 1998                        Idle: 0 days (actively tracing anomalies)
Mail: No new mail.                        Forwarding: None
Office: Québec Retro Lab                  Phone: N/A (use Discord or email)

Former internet handles (2000s era):
  • arsenic
  • Artemis`Entreri

Plan: Building AI-assisted debuggers for distributed systems.
			

Biography

I learned x86 assembly before I ever touched a "real" programming language.

All because I wanted to cheat at 2D games.

Instead I got hooked on staring at systems under a microscope.

From 2000 to 2004 — mostly while doing my computer science degree — I spent my nights reverse engineering, stepping through assembly, tracing memory, while others just played the game.

I never finished Diablo II. I reverse-engineered it instead.

That curiosity about game internals grew into a lifelong fascination with how large systems hold together, or how they spectacularly fall apart.

Today I architect distributed systems, build AI-assisted debugging tools, and hunt clean traces across sprawling microservices. I spent years at Ubisoft designing backend infrastructure that delivered games to millions of players without exploding. Mostly.

Outside the terminal I’m a dad of two. The only system that never respects my breakpoints.