Hi, I’m Mirza 👋
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Academic researcher & engineer based in Dortmund, Germany 🇩🇪 — living where planetary science, physics, and software engineering overlap. A mathematician at heart, I care about highly optimized, reproducible, and terminal-first workflows.

My handle arunoruto comes from my surname Arnaut → Japanese アルノルト (Arunoruto), by way of a certain Xenoblade character. 🎮

🔭 What I’m working on
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YASF — my main research code: light scattering with the T-matrix method for planetary regolith (Python).
flake — the reproducible NixOS · nix-darwin · Home Manager config behind every machine I run.
Contributing to nixpkgs — packaging and maintaining pieces of the Nix ecosystem.
Small Python libraries — research tooling I maintain, accelerated with Numba & JAX: ashp (alphashapes), reflectance-models, and lumafit (Numba-powered Levenberg–Marquardt).
Research @ TU Dortmund — polarimetry, micro-polarizer array filters, and regolith property modeling.

🛠️ Tech & environment
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Languages — Python & Nix are home; Rust is my current adventure; MATLAB & C++ are earlier chapters.

Editor & workflow

Infrastructure & networking

Home automation

🌱 Currently exploring
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Leveling up in Rust by building terminal tools — like my work-in-progress BibOxide bibliography manager.
Custom smart-home hardware — energy monitoring & microcontroller retrofits, e.g. stromleser-esphome.
Number theory and convex optimization problems.