Hello! My name is Alexander Nicholi. I was born Marshall Alexander Rose on March 6th, 1998 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma to parents native to Princeton, West Virginia. My mother was an active duty Army machinist when she had me, and is now a factory worker. My father is a musician and private tutor of guitar and piano. My paternal grandfather was among the last conventional labouring coal miners in West Virginia, and my maternal grandfather was a truck stop serviceman. I descend from a long line of poor, old stock Scotch-Irish Appalachian yeomen, who probably came to Virginia (as it were) under indenture to work plantations. I also have trace Melungeon ancestry, and am a sickle cell carrier.
As a child I was enamored with computers. I had countless old machines from thrift shops running various versions of Windows, and as I grew older I learned to use Linux over secure shell. I taught myself a great deal of programming technique, and by age 17 I was doing baremetal programming in C and assembly for the Game Boy Advance. This set the stage for my later research work concerning sustainable computing and the creation of C*, a programming language.
On December 7th, 1941, a day which will live on in infamy, 2017, I wed my husband from Indonesia, a former San Franciscan international student and the son of a Jakartan advertising magnate. He later attended college together with me and has had a presence in many of my business endeavours from the start, including ARQADIUM, which I started with him shortly after we met.
Most recently, I have gained employment at a presently-undisclosed Canadian startup, where I do low-level software engineering work on cloud infrastructure. Some day I hope we progress enough that I see it right to make public my role in the company, but until then it is not. You will see when the time is right.
