Hi, I'm
Engineering Leader · Builder · Bitcoiner
17+ years building production systems at scale. I lead engineering teams, architect distributed platforms, and obsess over infrastructure that runs well and costs less. Currently a Technical Manager at Head Digital Works.
I write about AWS, self-hosting, Bitcoin sovereignty, and the thinking behind hard decisions.
Replaced $40K/month Datadog + $40K/month CloudWatch with a self-built Grafana LGTM stack. ~$120K/month prospective savings across 15 departments at 6 TB/day.
Architected a targeting engine with Java 21 virtual threads processing millions of events at <500ms p99.
Right-sizing, Karpenter, Graviton, and lifecycle policies across production infrastructure. Zero performance loss.
Run my own Kubernetes clusters, observability stack, and services on bare metal. No cloud lock-in.
Technical deep dives, building in public, Bitcoin, and first-principles thinking.
Six dedicated servers in a German data centre, and a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on top of them. Most of what I run my life on now lives there. This is an honest account of why I built it, what it actually costs, and the situations in which you absolutely should not do the same.
I have two children. They will grow up in a world where Bitcoin is part of how families save, spend, and pass on wealth. Software good enough for non-technical families to do this safely does not yet exist. So I am building it — in public, decision by decision, with the next generation as the only deadline that matters.
Python on Knative was costing me 5–7 seconds every cold start. On a small Kubernetes cluster, that latency was the difference between a usable AI agent and a broken one. So I rewrote four services in Go on three weekends. Here are the measured numbers, the unexpected wins, the unexpected pains, and when you absolutely should not do the same.
I'm most active on Nostr and X. For longer conversations, email me.
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