Hi, I'm Felipe 👋

I break things so you don't have to. Building clouds, containers, and chaos.

Cloud Architect at AWS by day. By night, I make hardware that's older than most of my colleagues do things it was never meant to do — and wire it all back to a Kubernetes homelab.

2001 Power Mac G5  ──gopher(RFC 1436)──▶  Rust daemon on k8s  ──▶  Spotify Connect
     Mac OS 9                                homelab                   (today's music,
   (casquinha)          (gopher-spot)      (Cloudflare Tunnel)       yesterday's machine)

▶️ See it running

• 🔴 tracker.debene.dev — live NORAD-style Chicago 'L' train board (real-time)
• 🐹 gopher://gopher.debene.dev — a real live Gopher server (RFC 1436): CTA trains as a braille map, per-line menus, AI SITREPs (browser view · no gopher client needed)
• ⚽ gandula.debene.dev — play the football manager in your browser
• 📝 debene.dev — homelab, alternative computing & enterprise UNIX from a Chicago basement

🌱 What I'm actually building

• The Gopherverse — a whole stack of modern services delivered over a 1991 protocol: Spotify remotes for Mac OS 9 / Mac OS X Tiger / Snow Leopard, a native Android Gopher client (Kotlin · Compose · Material 3), a phlog renderer, tarot, and a shared Rust core.
• gandula — a text-based Brazilian football manager (TypeScript), with a Rust/WASM engine + RL agent (stable-baselines3) and a native Android port.
• Chicago 'L' in three flavors — live CTA train positions as a NORAD-style board on Cloudflare Workers (watch it live → tracker.debene.dev), a terminal version in Rust/ratatui, and a Unicode-braille Gopher map.
• debene.dev — Hugo + PaperMod, self-hosted on k8s behind a Cloudflare Tunnel, where I write up the non-sense that teaches me the real stuff.

🧰 Whatever the machine needs

Rust · Kotlin · Go · TypeScript · C · Objective-C · Python · Kubernetes · Cloudflare · AWS

💬 Ask me about

Cloud & networking, Kubernetes homelabbing, giving vintage hardware a second life, or the Gopher protocol. Fun fact: I learned BGP the hard way — by taking 1,400+ branches offline with a single command.

📫 felipe@debene.dev · 🌐 debene.dev · 📍 Chicago, IL

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