I design systems that hold up under load, and change without breaking.
Hands-on systems engineer leading IoT platform infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform administration, low-level Linux kernel networking, and high-throughput databases.
Selected Systems & Open Source
stopgap
Kotlin • Maven Central 2.8.0Microservice framework on Helidon SE (Nima) + Project Loom virtual threads. Custom compile-time DI via KSP and 3-tier testing harness.
assertgo
Go • GenericsType-safe testing assertion library built with modern Go generics. Provides fluent chainable assertions with zero external runtime dependencies.
relay
Zig • SystemsLow-level TCP server in pure Zig: raw POSIX socket descriptors, manual memory management without libc runtime dependencies, and SIGPIPE suppression.
Recent Technical Notes
Reversing Sleeping Dogs with Ghidra and Claude
Sep 25, 2026Why I abandoned reverse engineering two years ago, why I refuse to use copy-pasted trainers, and how digging into Ghidra and Claude finally broke the entry barrier.
Migrating to Kotlin with Claude Code
Sep 22, 2026Escaping IntelliJ's auto-convert traps, surviving Jackson serialization breakages, and finishing a 4-year Java-to-Kotlin migration in 3 days with Claude Code.
Double-Encoded Strings and the Normalization of Stupidity
Sep 20, 2026Trimming 10k-line controllers, banishing three competing JSON libraries, and the soul-crushing battle against JSON strings escaped inside JSON payloads.