Site reliability engineer and generalist technologist.
A CLI and MCP server that aggregates trust signals about open-source code, projects, and the people behind them — so humans and LLM coding agents can decide, on evidence, whether to adopt a dependency. Designed and shipped from zero to working MVP in four weeks. Why It Exists Frontier AI models can now find zero-day vulnerabilities at scale, and LLM coding agents readily suggest open-source…
How you use AI says more about you than it does about the technology. In communion with the angels In 1581, Doctor John Dee , mathematician, scientist, experimental occultist, and court astronomer to Queen Elizabeth I, began attempts to communicate with angelic beings. A year later, he and a scryer, Edward Kelley , began to transcribe Enochian , the speech of the angels that Kelley purported to…
A Go debugging training repository where every exercise is a real, runnable bug embedded in a realistic application context. Find the bug, understand why it exists, fix it, and confirm the fix with the provided test. No Kubernetes cluster required — all tests run locally against in-process fakes. What’s Inside 21 exercises across three application contexts: a Kubernetes resource auditor (…
DevOps programming with Go and LLMs. Problem definition and backstory Long ago, I joined what was the Android Apps (later Google Play) team as a software release engineer. The crux of this position was deploying new versions of the store and its billing infrastructure, along with automating those deployments and making them self-service features for software developers. When I joined, the builds…
A lightweight, append-only change registry that records deployments, feature-flag changes, infrastructure mutations, and other production events. It exposes them through a REST API and HTML dashboard, designed specifically for incident correlation and change tracking. Design Principles Immutable event model — events cannot be modified or deleted after creation. State changes are tracked through…
During my time at WePay, I tackled a problem that plagues many engineering organizations: repeated incidents of the same type. The diagnosis? A broken postmortem process — the way we sit down after an incident and determine how to make it better. Here’s the framework I used to fix it. 1. Deal with the incidents first If you never get a breath, or if you are having multiple customer-facing…
I had the good fortune to be a release engineer at Google and Facebook from 2006–2015, and participated in the development and trial of deployment patterns which are now common throughout the tech industry. First: consumer-facing apps are, at best, dynamically stable. They grow more stable the more frequently you are able to deploy small changes to production. This can be counterintuitive —…
A structured preparation tool for Python interview candidates, emphasizing practical skills over algorithm drilling. The format mirrors real interview scenarios: you’re given an existing codebase with unit tests, and your job is to read, debug, and fix the code. What’s Inside Guides – seven commented Python scripts covering functions and closures, classes and OOP, unittest fundamentals, debugging…
Educational content on release engineering and site reliability, drawn from experience shipping software at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and startups.
A French language learning platform built for intermediate (B1+) learners, live at rusty-french.com . The site uses generated translations and audio to provide reading and listening practice with authentic-feeling content. This is an experiment in generated language-learning content that is customized to specific user needs and practice scenarios. Technical Details The entire toolchain is written…