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About the Author
I'm a software engineer who ships technical posts on Fridays and hobby projects on Saturdays.
By day I work with Kubernetes, OAuth2, TypeScript, and self-hosted infrastructure - the kind of problems that are genuinely interesting to solve and worth writing about. By weekend I'm at the workbench with a soldering iron, an ESP32, and a half-finished idea.
This blog is my way of thinking out loud. Friday posts are technical deep-dives: cluster configurations, authentication flows, language features, and the occasional war story. Saturday posts are looser: electronics builds, personal projects, and whatever I'm currently obsessing over.
I believe in self-hosting, open standards, and writing things down. If something took me a day to figure out, it should take you ten minutes to read.
Experience & Projects
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Independent / Freelance
Building and maintaining self-hosted infrastructure, writing about Kubernetes, OAuth2, and TypeScript on Fridays. Tinkering with electronics and personal projects on Saturdays.
Platform Engineer
Tech Company
Designed and operated Kubernetes clusters for production workloads. Implemented OAuth2/OIDC authentication flows and internal developer tooling.
Full-Stack Developer
Software Studio
Delivered web applications using React and Node.js. Introduced TypeScript across the team and championed automated testing practices.
BSc Computer Science
University
Graduated with honours. Final-year project: a distributed task scheduler with fault-tolerant consensus. First electronics experiments during this period.
Skills
- Infrastructure & DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
- Self-hosting
- Backend & APIs
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- OAuth2 / OIDC
- REST
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Payload CMS
- Hobby & Hardware
- Electronics prototyping
- Arduino / ESP32
- PCB design
- 3D printing
- Home automation
Notable Projects
k8s-homelab
A fully self-hosted Kubernetes cluster running on bare-metal hardware at home. Includes Argo CD, Longhorn storage, and Traefik ingress.
- Kubernetes
- Self-hosting
- DevOps
oauth2-proxy-config
Opinionated OAuth2 Proxy configuration templates for common identity providers, with Helm chart and documentation.
- OAuth2
- Kubernetes
- Security
esp32-sensor-hub
A weekend electronics project: an ESP32-based sensor hub that publishes temperature, humidity, and air quality data to Home Assistant via MQTT.
- Electronics
- ESP32
- Home Automation
Get in Touch
The best way to reach me is by email or via GitHub. I'm also on Mastodon if you prefer the fediverse. If you found a post useful, a reply or a star on the relevant repo is always appreciated.