Alex JF

Welcome to my website!

My name is Alexandre Fonseca and I'm currently a System Software Engineer at Midokura.

This site's main purpose is to constitute my personal web presence. Here you will be able to learn who I am, what projects I am/was involved in as well as just check some rambling posts on my blog.

Also, feel free to contact me regarding any collaborations, help or feedback. You can reach me using the contact form on this website.

Latest Blog Entries

  1. Qatar Adventure

    • Category: Personal

    I've just about given up trying to keep regular personal updates on my blog. Something always comes up to take my attention and what were initially days of delay end up becoming months. Besides, it's not like I particularly enjoy writing or anything like that :P. Anyway, some people have asked me what I've been up to recently and the truth is that it's well past time I added some new content to the site. So here it is!!

  2. Website ported to Pelican

    • Category: Site

    I have finished porting the site from Drupal to Pelican. I'm happy to inform that the results of this port are a threefold improvement in page load time as well as a big reduction in the overhead to my small little dedicated server.

  3. Unexpected turns

    • Category: Personal

    Can't believe my last update was more than 3 months ago. As you can expect, a lot has happened since then! Among the biggest change was my move back to Barcelona. Ah but I digress, let me first complete my exposition of life in Stockholm.

Latest Projects

  1. Arabesque

    Arabesque is a distributed graph mining system that enables quick and easy development of graph mining algorithms, while providing a scalable and efficient implementation that runs on top of Hadoop.

  2. Shuffleezer

    • Category: Web

    A Web app to allow the automatic creation of a Deezer playlist containing a random sample of all tracks in a set of Deezer playlists.

    Developed with AngularJS, Bootstrap and the Deezer Web API.

  3. Shufflify

    • Category: Web

    A Web app to allow the automatic creation of a Spotify playlist containing a random sample of all tracks in a set of Spotify sources (either 'Your music' library or other playlists).

    Developed with AngularJS, Bootstrap and the Spotify Web API.