the low-friction generalist / software engineer
I work across backend systems, infrastructure, data, databases, Android, and the odd idea that will not leave me alone.
My mission is to build robust, scalable applications and reduce system entropy. I like to understand the inner workings of tools that we take for granted every day. I like to form novel ideas, morph them and apply them to the business. There is never a change made without a reason. Even with AI.
I am serious about my work; every deliverable is an expression of my craft. I consistently meet and exceed expectations. As expected from a Neovim user, by the way.
Professional record / 2023-now
SDE at Vue.ai, worked across the api-gateway, data pipelines, multi-cloud infrastructure and AI-DLC (a Claude skill with guardrails against agent slop), while driving adoption of our products in the new parent company.
Built an Airbyte data ingress and egress connector spanning Delta, SQL, files, and Elasticsearch. It reads the container's cgroup memory limit to size record batches before writing to object store, capped at the cloud provider's recommended upper limit, so it avoids out-of-memory failures.
Maintaining and extending capabilities of our internal multi-cloud library - a package supporting operations across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and bare metal while preserving full backward compatibility. Used by 8+ services within the company.
POCs laying the foundation for new product capabilities such as data visualization (Superset), observability (Linkerd) and a federated query engine (Trino). Documenting feature benefits, integration cost & complexity, product compatibility and benchmarking.
The longer version
Each chapter has room for context, approach, and boundaries, and goes deeper into my thought process.
Open the work recordExhibit / four specimens
Expanding the horizon: built with curiosity, lots of educational experiments across different disciplines within tech.
Go / network protocol
HTTP/1.1 built from the RFC 9112 standard: request parsing, response construction, larger-file transfer, and concurrent serving with error handling. Not a single line from net/http is used.
$ curl -i --http1.1 http://127.0.0.1:42069/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json
content-length: 37
connection: close
{"status":"ok","message":"All good"}
Python / local nltk tooling
A REPL CLI offering an offline dictionary and reverse dictionary with text auto-complete. Describe your vague thoughts and revdict suggests matching definitions along with sentiment tagging, connotation, confidence, and examples.
TypeScript / publishing infrastructure
A collaborative, Markdown-native wiki where Git is the database and the moderation system. Pages live in a git repository; saves are commits; revisions are branches; publishing opens a real pull request.
A private repo; the source is not public yet.
Kotlin / Android
Share Arts by Overlay is a native Android application for finding, browsing, saving, and sharing various media through one continuous media carousel. It accompanies you across apps with an unobtrusive floating icon.
Dispatches / from the shelf
Short notes, useful links, and things I want to remember - properly categorized. A small collection of discoveries across software, systems, career and life outside.
Trace the timeline, follow a thread, or explore the map. Oh, you could also get dispatches delivered to you by RSS (coz mailing lists are just noise).
About / beyond the résumé
I am the happiest person when the boundaries blur: apps and infrastructure, building features and micro-optimizing APIs, backend and frontend, data and visualization.
Working style 01 / field notes
Handed an unseen tool or service, I learn what it was built for before I judge whether it fits. I test my guesses cheaply and write down what I find so someone else can also decide.
Homelab
A headless Ryzen PC for self-hosting, my lab for experiments, and learning what OSS services normally conceal.
Reading
Japanese light novels and web novels, consumed at a volume that occasionally resembles a background service.
Current desk
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