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Backend and systems engineering work, interests, and current focus.

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About

Building reliable systems

I work on backend systems where correctness, latency, and maintainability matter. My interests span low-level programming, concurrency, networking, and Linux tooling.

I work on systems where correctness and latency matter — thread pools, socket I/O, process synchronization, and service boundaries.

Most of my time goes into C/C++, Go, and Python for backend services, with a growing focus on Linux internals and network programming.

I prefer small, well-tested components over large abstractions. If it cannot be reasoned about under load, it is not done.