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Hello World
The first post on the impostor engineer. What this blog is about and what to expect.
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Backend Engineer
who writes about things
he's still figuring out.
Building distributed systems by day, writing about the journey of learning in public. Because the best way to learn is to admit you don't know everything.
// what I work with
Areas of Focus
Things I spend most of my time thinking about and building with.
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Distributed Systems
Designing systems that scale — message queues, event-driven architectures, and the trade-offs that keep you up at night.
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Cloud Infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform. Making infrastructure reproducible and less terrifying.
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Go & Backend
Writing performant, readable Go. Building APIs, CLIs, and services that other engineers actually want to maintain.
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Observability
If you can't see it, you can't fix it. Logging, tracing, metrics, and the art of debugging production.
// recent posts
From the Blog
View all →Writing about things I'm learning, building, and occasionally breaking.
// tech stack
Tools & Technologies
The things in my toolbox that I reach for most often.
Go Python TypeScript PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS GCP gRPC Prometheus Grafana Git Linux
// let's connect
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