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# Who is Raphael?
A fair question. I’m still figuring that out myself, but here's what I know thus far.
A fair question. I’m still figuring that out myself. Buckle up, because you’re going to pretend you’re me while I narrate. If that’s not your jam, that’s okay; I’m just trying something and running with it. You (may or may not) have free will, so feel free to click away, but I promise this is a great way to get to know me.
I’m a 4th year student at the University of Chicago with an enduring fascination for systems — the kind that hum quietly when they work and demand humility when they don’t. Most of my time goes into running and refining a constellation of Linux machines, tinkering with infrastructure, and turning half-baked technical curiosities into functioning projects.
Saturday, April 12th, 2003. Long Beach, California. It’s a cool, rainy day with a high dew point (maybe—I’m just making that up). A few minutes after noon, you spawn into the world. Excited and curious, you first meet your mom and dad, who will love and support you for the next two and a half decades. Your parents are Israeli by birth, naturalized in Canada, and your mother in the U.S. Your mom is a clinical neuropsychologist (we can call her Dr. Mom), and your dad is an “inventor,” though a lawyer by training.
My formal majors are Data Science and Music, but I'm kind of all over the place. I do systems research in the C.S. department and spend most of my time tinkering.
Okay, this is starting to read like an edgy college admissions paper—but I promise mine were much drier and less interesting than this. Anyway, skip forward a few years, and you’re in high school. You don’t have much of a personality right now, and you’re looking for a way to define yourself, so you end up studying for a fuck ton of Advanced Placement exams on your own. You didn’t do it for college admissions (hard to believe, I know), but rather out of genuine interest in various subjects and a desire to learn about the world. By the time you’re reading this in the present, most of what you learned will be long gone, but it contributed to who you are as a person, so that’s irrelevant.
I like systems that make sense, music that doesn’t, and the way both Adele and Bach can bring order to chaos. Whether I’m balancing RAID arrays, planning the next server migration, or diving into aviation data for no practical reason, I’m driven by the same thing: curiosity, and the satisfaction of making something truly work.
Aside from that, your main other activity is choir and composing choral music. You have a lot of tension with the choir program at your school---it’s an amazing program, but it’s mostly show choir–focused, which means dancing, which you are not good at in the slightest. Still, you don’t let that get you down; you do it for the love of the music. You pick up a love of aviation and travel from your father, who by this point has moved to China—but more on that later.
I'm a dual Canadian-American citizen born and raised in Long Beach, California and currently residing in Chicago.
Eventually, after surviving a global pandemic (which had a surprisingly minimal impact on your life), your hard work pays off, and you end up admitted to the University of Chicago as a President’s Scholar. There’s a part of you that questions this decision when you commit, but their marketing and keen interest in you supersede that. Your first quarter there is a blast, but more fun than studying, but you write that off as your first taste of real freedom. You make friends, despite being socially awkward, most of which will disappear.

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# Contact
For professional or personal matters, including any site issues, please contact me at [raphael@rbitton.com](mailto:raphael@rbitton.com).
For professional or personal matters, please contact me at [raphael@rbitton.com](mailto:raphael@rbitton.com).
For academic matters, please contact me at [rbitton@uchicago.edu](mailto:rbitton@uchicago.edu).
For site matters, please contact me at [webmaster@rbitton.com](mailto:webmaster@rbitton.com) and my army of bots will attempt to analyze and fix your issue, and inevitably report to me when they give up.
I am usually quite good at responding to emails in a timely manner, so expect a response within 12 hours, barring abnormal circumstances.