01Aug 27, 2026
5 min readThe Tale of Impact
Hiring managers love asking for 'impact' on CVs. Most tech work isn't designed to produce it - and that shouldn't disqualify you.
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TrustBoundary
Drawing the line between what you trust and what you must verify.
Security architecture, threat modeling, and systems thinking — by Álvaro Reyes.
01PrinciplesHow I think about the work
01Trust has edges
Every system has boundaries. Good security names them explicitly.
02Build, don't gatekeep
Automate the manual. Ship tooling teams actually use.
03Systems over stories
Competence shows in constraints and failure modes, not resume poetry.
02WritingLatest from the blog
02Aug 23, 2026
9 min read757 Games in a Spreadsheet: Why I Barely Play Anymore
I've been logging every videogame I play for years. The data tells a clear story: my golden age ended around 2017, and the hobby has been fading ever since.
03Aug 22, 2026
7 min readWhen the Interview Barely Happened: My Intellias Interview
I applied for a Security Engineer role at Intellias. What followed was a disaster.
—The author
Álvaro Reyes
Security Engineer & Software Developer