I work in code and in sound.

I am Maurice Noel Bouniol, known as Moris Noel for everything I make in public. I am a software engineer, a DJ, and a music producer, based in Athens, Greece. The two halves of my work look like different worlds to most people. To me they have always been the same one.

The engineering side started in electronics. I did my B.Eng in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece, where I spent years on analogue and digital circuits, microprocessors, PCB design, and satellite communication systems. I finished it with a first-class thesis on home automation using Arduino, NodeJS, and the Johnny-Five library, my first real taste of building something that bridged hardware and software. From there I went to the University of Birmingham for an MSc in Computer Science, where I worked on a real-time collaborative web platform built in MeteorJS and React. I have spent the last eight years working as a developer, most recently shipping production NextJS, React, and TypeScript applications across two Athens-based companies, and I am currently between roles as I move into a new position.

The music side started in parallel. I trained at DJ Survival Concept Course in Athens, then took my production further at Glory Hill Studio, which doubles as a record label, learning advanced electronic music production in a working studio environment rather than a classroom. I have played across the Greek islands and cities, and further afield in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. My releases sit somewhere between soul, edits, and electronic, the most recent ones live on SoundCloud and on this site. At Birmingham I was a member of both the Computer Science Society and the Jazz Funk and Soul Society, which is the first time I noticed that the two halves of my life were already trying to share a calendar.

Audio engineering and software engineering use different vocabularies for the same instincts. Signal flow, latency, the cost of a bad abstraction, the value of a clean signal path, none of these are metaphors when you have spent years moving between an IDE and a DAW. Whether the window in front of me is VS Code or Ableton, the practice is the same: patience, iteration, and the long search for the version where every piece justifies its place. I switch tabs, not modes.

I write occasionally on Medium about what these two crafts have to teach each other, and I take on selective engineering and music work through this site. I have been using AI tools in my daily work for the last four years, long enough to know what they are good for and what they are not. They make the easy parts faster and the hard parts more tempting to skip. The work I am most proud of, in code and in sound, is still the work where I made the human decisions: which problem to solve, which feedback to take, which note to leave in. If you have a system worth building, in code or in sound, you can find me below.