Fort Worth · Texas · est. somewhere in the 2000s

Welcome to my little piece of net-land.

This is a small personal site: part contact card, part notebook, part archive of interests that do not fit neatly into one line. I work in software, study music slowly, train when I can, and keep returning to Japanese culture with more curiosity than expertise.

If you are looking for business-like information, the resume section is probably the shortest path. Everything else here is intentionally less efficient.

  • Software systems
  • Endurance, slowly
  • Technology tinkering
  • Music practice
  • Personal notes
  • Old web habits
  • 日本文化の学生

§ 01

About me

I tend to spend my time in a few recurring ways: 1) working, 2) training, 4) studying, 3) doing something else.

A lot of what I do has some element of practice in it: designing software systems, going out for long slow runs, working through a shakuhachi phrase, or trying to make sense of a bandoneon keyboard. I am not sure that makes it profound. It does make it mine.

I have kept some version of a personal homepage on the open web since the iWeb era. This version keeps the old habit, but tries to be a little less noisy about it.

§ 02

Bio

Alberto Battaglino works in software engineering and architecture and keeps a small personal site about music, training, and study.

His professional work has focused on software systems across travel technology, logistics, consulting, and payments. The work is practical: understand the problem, make the system easier to reason about, and try not to add unnecessary ceremony.

Outside work, he spends time with long-distance training, Japanese culture, and music. He studies shakuhachi in the Jin Nyodo kei tradition, has appeared in World Shakuhachi Day materials, and was listed as Alberto Gyoja Battaglino for the World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas. Bandoneón is still a beginner's practice: bellows, buttons, and patience.

This website keeps the spirit of the old Battaglino.org: part contact page, part notebook, part artifact from the personal-web era. It is not a brand. It is just a place to keep a few things.

§ 03

Notes

This is my personal blog — or rather, the room where one will eventually live. For the training log, see improbableathlete.com. I still keep compartmentalizing my life: a blog here for this, another blog there for that other thing.

Photography· Ultrarunning & triathlon· Playing and listening to music

  1. Forthcoming · field notes

    108 Ro, alone in a hallway

    Looking back at World Shakuhachi Day 2020 — "Blow away Covid-19!" — and what it means to play a long tone into a quiet house.

  2. Forthcoming · essays

    Notes from the slow lane

    Notes from somewhere between long races, unfinished plans, and the useful humility of being very average at difficult things.

  3. Forthcoming · build log

    Why the old iWeb site is still here

    A small defense of personal sites that refuse to die, and a quick tour of the rebuild that kept the parchment but threw out the table layout.

§ 04

Music

尺八 · shakuhachi

A bamboo flute, mostly in the morning

I study shakuhachi in the Jin Nyodo kei lineage. In 2020 I joined the global 108 Ro long-tone challenge as a World Shakuhachi Day ambassador — the theme that year was "Blow away Covid-19!".

In April 2025 I was listed among the performers at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas, in the JSPN Feature Concert Japanese Masters & Masterpieces at Rudder Theater, playing Dozan Fujiwara's "Bamboo Voice, Pine Tree Silhouette" (2023, commissioned by JSPN).

Listed as Alberto Gyoja Battaglino.

Bandoneón

The other set of lungs

The bandoneón is still mostly a private study. I am working through the basics — left-hand maps, bellows control, the strange asymmetry of the keyboards — with no particular timeline. Tango as patient practice, not performance.

Voice & ensemble

Old recordings, old friends

I have sung in small ensembles over the years, including credits with I Cantastorie di Silvano Spadaccino, and turned up in the occasional band project. None of it is presented here as a career. It is just part of the listening practice.

§ 05

Resume

To see my resume, click the link. For more information, or my address, please email me.

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  1. Now

    Sr. Staff Software Engineer

    Visa

  2. Previously

    Architect

    Akari Group

  3. Previously

    FTL Architect

    Worldwide Express

  4. Previously

    Sr. Principal

    Sabre Corporation

§ 06

Links

These are a few older places on the internet. Some are active, some are mostly archival, and some mainly prove that small experiments can survive much longer than planned.