Platform Engineer · building kubelock.io · open to new work, Q3 2026

Platform Engineer — building secure, automated infrastructure

designing infrastructure that scales quietly and clusters that explain themselves.

Selected work

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07/2026Forgejo CICI/CD infrastructure on Forgejo Actions — Docker-in-Docker jobs, secure external-contributor workflows, and ephemeral runner scaling.Forgejo · CI/CD 07/2026kubelockeBPF-based network event capture across cluster nodes via Tetragon, with a Go ingestor and a Memgraph-backed behavioral graph.Kubernetes · eBPF 06/2026ApexA DNS server built from scratch in Rust — parses raw packets from the wire, resolves recursively, and responds with no system resolver dependencies.Rust · DNS 06/2026lazychipA CHIP-8 emulator engine written in Zig — a reusable library that implements the full interpreter state and instruction set.Zig · Emulation 05/2026loreA reflection library for Zig — compile-time type, field, and shape inspection without runtime allocation.Zig · Compile-time

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Latest from the blog

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07/2026Expressive Code Feature ShowcaseEvery feature Expressive Code provides out of the box — from syntax highlighting and frame types to line markers and ANSI colors.Astro · Markdown 07/2026Getting Started with AstroWhy I chose Astro for this portfolio and how its island architecture changed the way I think about frontend frameworks.Astro · Frontend 07/2026Design Tokens in Pure CSSHow five CSS custom properties control every color on this site, and why that's better than a Tailwind config.CSS · Design Systems

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About

I'm a tinkerer at heart — the kind of engineer who wants to know what's actually happening under the abstraction, not just that it works. That instinct is what pulled me toward platform engineering: the layer between code and production, where infrastructure decisions either quietly hold everything together or quietly break it.

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