Hi, and welcome to my website!
My name is Max Vincent and I am currently working as a Logistics Engineer in the province of Lucca, in Tuscany, Italy.
Some of my passions include exercise, outdoor pursuits, computing, machine learning, language learning and traveling. I have had the good fortune to have visited and lived in many different countries, which has broadened my horizons and given me access to opportunities I would have never expected.
I am an enthusiastic language learner. I was raised bilingual English/Italian and as of early 2025 I am able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and French, to varying degrees of proficiency. Other languages that I have an interest in are Afrikaans, Japanese, German and Polish.
You can find some of my thoughts and experiences learning various languages at the following link: Language Review.
I have a degree in Computer Science, and computing has been a foundational interest of mine since a young age. At age 16 I assembled a desktop computer for the first time, and since then I have tinkered with hardware and software on a variety of different projects. As far as hardware is concerned I am enthusiastic about IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, in particular I enjoy repairing, restoring, upgrading and in general tinkering with old hardware. I’ve dabbled with a variety of Raspberry Pi projects, including a print server and a basic NAS (Network Accessed Storage), among others. I am also an enthusiastic Linux user, as well as having plenty of experience using Windows and MacOS.
From a young age I’ve always been interested in Cybersecurity, Networking and technology more broadly. I remember obsessively researching different computer viruses and vectors for infection as a young boy who had at that point on more than one occasion caused irrevocable damage to the family desktop pc. To this day I remain avidly curious about all things related to Cybersecurity and online privacy; I am also a firm proponent of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). I run a home network that runs predominantly open source software services on a TP-Link Omada “short stack” network (ER707-M2 Omada Router, Omada-managed Switches, EAP-6xx Omada Wi-Fi Access Points) with guest networks, VLAN management, IoT and Security Cameras on the network. I have set up a home NAS (SMB+NFS shares) which I can access from anywhere using Tailscale, a Wireguard-based VPN service.
