Northwind
Reporting for a logistics fleet that had outgrown its spreadsheet. p95 went from 4.1s to 380ms without adding a single server.
TypeScript
Postgres
Litestream
Available for select work
Software engineer building boring, reliable web infrastructure.
I help product teams make their systems fast, observable and dull — the kind of software nobody has to think about at 3am. Eleven years in, most of that spent removing things rather than adding them.
11
years shipping software
38
projects delivered
4
open-source tools
99.98%
median uptime, last 3 years
Selected work
Three projects that shipped and stayed shipped
Writing
Notes from the unglamorous side of software
Longer pieces on performance, databases, design systems and the operational habits that keep things running.
Boring infrastructure is a feature
Novelty has a carrying cost. A case for choosing the technology you can debug at 3am over the one that looks best on a conference slide.
Engineering
Shipping a design system in six weeks
How a three-person team replaced four competing button components with 64 documented ones — and why the tokens mattered more than the components.
Design systems
A performance budget you will actually keep
Most budgets die in a spreadsheet. Here is the version that survived two years of feature work, plus the CI check that enforces it.
Performance
How I work
Four habits that do most of the heavy lifting
01
Measure before you rewrite
Almost every rewrite I have been asked to lead was solved by an index, a cache header and deleting a synchronous call. Numbers first, opinions second.
02
Prefer one box to five
A single well-understood machine with backups beats a distributed system nobody can reason about. Scale when the graph tells you to.
03
Make the default path safe
If the correct thing is harder than the wrong thing, people will do the wrong thing. Pitfalls of the API are documentation problems first.
04
Write the runbook early
If I cannot describe how to recover a system in one page, I do not understand it yet. The runbook is the design review.
Current toolkit
TypeScriptGoRustPostgreSQL
SQLiteRedisClickHouseNATS
DockerGitHub ActionsTerraformOpenTelemetry
GrafanaPlaywrightViteLinux
A longer, annotated list lives on the uses page.
Next step
Got a system that needs to be less exciting?
I take on two engagements a quarter — usually performance work, database cleanups or rescuing a service that has become the thing everyone is afraid to deploy.