About
About this portfolio
This portfolio collects projects, experiments, and writing on building reliable systems and practical AI.
Bio
I'm a senior backend engineer specializing in Go and cloud-native systems, building production microservices on Kubernetes with a bias for reliability, simplicity, and clear system design.
Go & distributed systemsKubernetes & platform configurationCI/CD & GitOpsOperational reliabilityLLM & RAG backend integrations
Systems & Go Engineering+
Production-minded services with clarity, concurrency safety, and ops reliability.
What I do
- Design microservices with clear boundaries and ownership.
- Handle concurrency patterns and production pitfalls in Go.
- Think in failure modes: retries, timeouts, backpressure, observability.
What I learned
- Simple architectures scale further than clever ones.
- Operational constraints shape the correct design.
- Performance comes from data + profiling, not guesswork.
Proof
- 5+ years of professional development with strong Go focus.
- Production Go microservices on Kubernetes with CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
AI & RAG Systems+
LLMs as components with grounding, structure, evaluation.
What I do
- Use RAG to ground outputs and reduce hallucination risk.
- Design structured outputs for reliability and composability.
- Plan for evaluation: rubrics, sampling, and feedback loops.
What I learned
- Structure beats prompt cleverness.
- Without evaluation, iteration is blind.
- Human-in-the-loop is essential in operational workflows.
Proof
- Built ExplainIQ AI MVP using RAG + LLMs for structured learning aids.
- Explored OCR -> extraction pipelines in Issue DetectiveAI.
Product & Architecture Decisions+
Product mindset: problem clarity, simplest viable design, iterate with feedback.
What I do
- Start from "why" and define non-goals early.
- Ship MVPs with tight scope and clear user value.
- Design systems to be modular and extensible (plugins/config).
What I learned
- Polish matters only after the core loop is correct.
- Good defaults and boundaries prevent rewrites.
- A roadmap should be direction, not promises.
Proof
- RitualOps AI designed with modular task execution, workflow coordination, and tenant-aware configuration.
- ICN publication comparing protocol approaches for intent- and context-driven agent communication.
Focus
5+ years
Experience
Go backend + platform
Focus
Go, Kubernetes, GCP/Azure
Stack
Senior Developer / PCO
Current mode
Achievements
- 5+ years of software development with a strong Go focus.
- Own production services end-to-end across design, deployment, on-call, and incident response.
- Platform Configuration Owner for GitOps, Helm charts, CI/CD, QA setup, and integration configuration.
- Built RAG and LLM-backed backend workflows for learning and operational automation.