🚀 Tech Lead | 🌐 System Designer & Architect | 🛠️ Open Source Enthusiast
I’m a tech lead with a passion for system design, architecture, and infrastructure automation. My expertise lies in designing distributed systems, building developer-centric tools, and creating scalable, user-friendly solutions. From bare-metal infrastructure to abstracting complex systems into simple interfaces, I thrive on solving tough problems with creativity and precision.
Here’s a quick glimpse of what I’ve built over the years:
- 🏗️ Multi-tenant, distributed microservice architectures for enterprise-grade ATS platforms.
- ⚙️ A workflow engine that’s both developer-friendly and business-centric, featuring its own execution engine, schedulers, runners, and FaaS-like functionality.
- 📬 A highly scalable email system syncing with enterprise providers like Microsoft Graph and Google Workspace.
- 📊 Dynamic table systems with user-defined schemas and a JSON-based interface for instant, real-time frontend generation.
- 🧠 A unified logic engine to handle dynamic conditions, drastically reducing code complexity and enabling reusable validation frameworks.
- 🔐 End-to-end authorization systems that go beyond ABAC, incorporating business metrics, feature flagging, A/B testing, cost calculations, and more.
When I’m not building scalable systems or designing databases, I enjoy:
- 📚 Reading books
- ♟️ Playing chess (badly, but passionately)
- 🛠️ Ricing my Linux setup
- 🏋️♂️ Working out
- 🛠️ Over-engineering tools that “just look cool” 😎
- System Design & Architecture: Designed complex distributed systems, databases, and tools, enabling scalability, efficiency, and user-centric solutions.
- Infrastructure Wizardry: Built a private cloud from scratch with multi-zone failover redundancy and a fully automated infrastructure provisioning system.
- Abstract Developer Tools: Created frameworks and tools that abstract complexity, empowering developers and reducing code by up to 30%.
- Team Leadership: Successfully led a team of 11-13 engineers while managing and maintaining the company’s entire infrastructure.
- Core Skills: Ansible, Terraform, YAML, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Bash
- DevOps Tools: ArgoCD, Kargo, Tektonic, Jenkins, Trivy, Backstage
- Message Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Databases: Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, MongoDB
- Change Data Capture: Debezium
- ETL Pipelines: Airflow, Airbyte
Here are some of the open-source projects I’m proud of:
- SSHield - Your infrastructure's bouncer, keychain manager, and tunnel architect—all in one slick TUI.
- fusync - A library for managing and executing complex sequences of asynchronous operations.
- Ironclad - An evidence-based personal accountability system that enforces brutal honesty.
- ServerForge - A modern, interactive CLI tool for provisioning and configuring servers.
- Hyprfoil - Browser-style tabs for Hyprland.
"Build systems that empower people, abstract complexity, and scale effortlessly."
I love building silly, useless and over engineered tools thatlook insanely cool—because why not? 😎