Platform engineer and writer building with Python and Go.Platform engineer building CBA’s AI developer platform for 200+ engineers.
Latest essayHow Dragonfly Outruns Redis — A Backend Engineer's Tour
I’m a senior platform engineer with 7+ years building developer infrastructure, automation, and distributed backend systems in Python and Go.
I built the internal AI developer platform now used by 200+ engineers: coding-agent workspaces, MCP integrations, an LLM gateway, and evaluation telemetry.
Dragonfly serves millions of QPS on a single box where Redis caps around 100k. I read the source to find out which three decisions — and one fast-path trick — actually do the work.
SET key valOKThe uncontended single-key path. Follow it in the source.
The reliable way to ship LLM features isn't a better prompt — it's shrinking the model's job until everything around it is plain, testable code.
Most engineers now run Cursor and Claude Code in parallel — here's how I split the work between them, and why code-review discipline matters more than ever.
Independent software studio
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I built Deckle with SwiftUI and AppKit: a native menu-bar app that adds a subtle paper texture to macOS.
The paper is cached. Adjusting intensity changes opacity, not the texture. And every click, drag, and keystroke passes straight through to your work.
Shipped and notarized for macOS.
Systems, uncertainty, and the way we think. A few books from my shelf.
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A deep dive into building scalable, reliable, and maintainable data systems, exploring the principles and practices of modern data architecture.
An examination of the underestimated role of chance in life and the markets, challenging how we think about success and failure.
A practical guide to the fundamental concepts and patterns behind modern distributed systems.