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Hugo Demenez

My work

I work as a backend engineer full time. I have been tradingfor almost a decade. What I learned there led me to build Deltalytix in public on GitHub: a tool to track my daily progress, and to turn that data into a systematic process. I still run it myself, now with a fleet of agents.

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Why engineering?

As a kid I wandered looking at the sky, asking myself how such machines could stay up there. That question is what pulled me into engineering.

From there I kept tinkering with code and with machines. I am always drawn to work that lasts and does its job without breaking. A Berkel flywheel is that idea in a smaller form: decades of use, ham sliced as fine as dentelle.

BERKELV. BERKEL'S PATENT · ROTTERDAM HOLLAND ·
A Berkel volano (manual flywheel slicer) after period photos: flower flywheel of the Model L / 80 era; carriage, rails, shoulder and tray as on the Model 8/21. The wheel turns gears in the base: they spin the blade faster than the wheel and, through a crank and connecting rod, walk the carriage and its ham past the blade — one slice per turn. Sources: originalslicers.com on the Berkel flywheel; Berkel Volano / Model 8 manuals. Drawn with Anatomy (MIT).

Most days have a soundtrack; this week it has been Signal Perdu by Bon Entendeur, Edouard Bielle.

I don’t spend much time on social networks; when I scout, it’s @hugodemenez for the latest in AI and design.

Places

A rough map of recent regions, and a couple still ahead.

Most of the time

Casual

I'd like to go

Running

I started running as a trader, to empty my mind after intense sessions. I kept the habit for stamina and endurance as I get older. I run early, without music: birds, sunlight, and the occasional race for fun.

Recent mapped runs.