Hello, world

Welcome to the impostor engineer — a blog about systems engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and the internals of programming languages.

What to expect

I’ll be writing about things like:

• Infrastructure & DevOps — ECS, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, cost optimization, and the tools that keep production running
• Auth systems — OpenFGA, Teleport, and rolling your own when the off-the-shelf options don’t fit
• Language internals — garbage collection in Go, memory management in Rust, concurrency models across languages
• Things I build — deep dives into internal tools and side projects

Why “the impostor engineer”?

Because half the time I’m figuring it out as I go. And I suspect most of us are. The goal here is to write honestly about the things I learn — the dead ends included.

A code sample

Here’s a quick Go snippet to test syntax highlighting:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    languages := []string{"Go", "Rust", "Elixir", "Python"}
    for _, lang := range languages {
        fmt.Printf("Writing about %s internals soon.\n", lang)
    }
}

Stay tuned. There’s a lot more coming.