Every request ends at the metal.
I design cloud platforms, build full-stack products, and keep them running in production. From a single VPS to multi-region Kubernetes. From a quick Next.js MVP to a hardened, observed, automated stack. Boring infra. Beautiful interfaces. Real outcomes. If you can describe it, I can ship it.
Four flavours of engagement. Mix-and-match in practice.
Designs that scale and stay cheap.
Greenfield infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, or Hetzner. Multi-region when you need it, single-VPS when you do not.
Your own PaaS on your own hardware.
Coolify, Dokploy, Portainer, Homarr, Uptime Kuma, Grafana - turn a homelab or single VPS into a production cockpit.
From idea to live URL.
Next.js, React, Node, Bun, Python - shipped end-to-end with auth, payments, observability, and a deploy pipeline you can actually trust.
CI/CD that just works.
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions. Build pipelines, deploy pipelines, rollback strategies, and the boring runbooks that prevent 3am pages.
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Stalwart on a single Hetzner box: SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, anti-spam, DKIM/SPF/DMARC. Replaced a paid provider.
→ 0$ provider bill · TLS-A everywhere · 99.9% deliverability
Full-stack monitoring across a fleet: Homarr as the dashboard, Portainer for containers, Beszel for metrics, Dozzle for live logs, Uptime Kuma for alerts.
→ 12 services watched · sub-30s mean detection
Patches into the dashboarding side of Superset: query bug fixes, chart polish, docs. Merged upstream.
→ PRs merged · ~73k stars project
Built an Amazon SES transport plugin for Mautic and currently working on a WhatsApp integration for the marketing-automation OSS.
→ SES plugin shipped · WhatsApp integration in progress
Audited running services on a single VPS by actual load. Removed dead containers, swapped fat services for lighter equivalents, tuned systemd units.
→ ~40% lower monthly cost · same workloads
Currently studying + sending small patches into the kernel tree. Focus area: systems plumbing, driver tweaks, and tooling for build/test.
→ In progress · learning by patching, not by reading
How Kubernetes actually works.
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