Software Engineer & Open-Source Maintainer
JS/TS · Elixir · Go · Solidity
Exploring payments, ledgers, and distributed systems
Astrophile · Tech Blogger
I'm a Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building production-grade systems designed to scale. My work sits at the intersection of backend performance, distributed architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure — with a growing focus on payments, financial ledgers, and blockchain systems.
I care deeply about writing software that is not only functional, but maintainable, observable, and resilient under pressure.
Beyond engineering, I contribute to open-source, write about distributed systems and infrastructure on my blog, and spend my nights thinking about the universe.
Languages
TypeScript · JavaScript · Elixir · Go · Solidity
Backend
Node.js · NestJS · Express · Phoenix (Elixir)
Frontend
Angular · NgRx · NGXS · Sass · Material UI
Databases & Caching
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Firebase
Infrastructure & DevOps
Docker · Kubernetes · Kafka · AWS · GitHub Actions · CircleCI
Architecture Patterns
Microservices · Event-Driven Systems · Domain-Driven Design · Clean Architecture · Nx Monorepos
- Payments & Ledgers — Designing reliable, audit-ready financial systems with strong consistency guarantees
- Distributed Systems — Architecting services that scale horizontally and degrade gracefully under load
- Open Source — Maintaining libraries and tooling that improve developer experience across the ecosystem
- Blockchain & Web3 — Smart contract development in Solidity; exploring decentralised financial primitives
- Technical Writing — Breaking down complex systems thinking into accessible, practical content
- Design for scale from the start — retrofitting is expensive
- Build systems that fail gracefully, not catastrophically
- Observability is not optional in production
- Good architecture enables fast teams, not just fast software
- Write code for the engineer who maintains it next
I write about distributed systems, backend architecture, and engineering trade-offs. If you find something useful, a ⭐ on the repo goes a long way.
Always building. Always learning. Always scaling.