I'm a metal(core) singer with 12+ years of experience in tech.
Currently living in Northern Europe and working at GitHub (you are looking at it).
My decade in the space had me doing Software Engineering, Platform Engineering (lots of k8s), Developer Relations, Field Marketing, Sales/Revenue Engineering, co-founding a startup and freelancing which is basically me being a one-man company. Order of these is random.
Have you seen Everything Everywhere All at Once? I am the tech version of that.
- I offer freelance services:
- Kubernetes assessment, optimization and strategy (not really for startups, you typically don't need that until you hit elastic usage growth, with unpredictable peaks)
- Platform Engineering (again, usually not for startups until they hit product market fit and need to scale their infra (teams))
- Helping you hire the right engineers for the job (for every software company)
- Fractionally helping you get shit (and software) done until you hire the right engineers for the job
- Product Market Fit & Go To Market (this is mainly for startups and scaleups or enterprises with innovative product lines on top of their current business)
- Open Source strategy (for every company, regardless of their domain)
- Mentor engineers via Mentorcruise and other channels
- a very selected few mentees at a time (usually 2, maximum 3)
- no 100% beginners
- no leeching (if you are ready for interviewing, acquired the knowledge you wanted or you reached your goal, there's no point in me to keep mentoring you)
- no bullshit
- a month for free if you recently got laid off subject to (my) availability, first come first served
I also work on a number of different software projects, some for keeping myself technical (Kubernetes?) some for fun, some to free myself from paying lots of subscriptions, some for (hopefully) future profit so I can retire early.
If a project has no link it's closed source for the time being.
I tend to default to open source, MIT License, but sometimes I don't.
- ❄️ NixArc - NixOS meets Arch Linux. A prototype OS, to explore the possibility of having a declarative system manifest inspired by NixOS within Arch.
- ⚖️ VSLocal - the local-first AI IDE alternative that requires no account, API key, or cloud service. A VSCode fork, powered by open weight models. See vslocal-test for initial PoC (WIP).
- 🌐 Stainless - A chromium-based productivity and dev oriented web browser: native adblock, sandboxed, clean search (goodbye sponsored/recommended content) and local/self hosted AI (optional).
- 🦇 moguri - A harness for your AI that works on your terms, both in a CLI (TUI) format and a desktop app, forked from OpenCode
- 📦 sendbox - An all-in-one sandbox for agents, integrated with devcontainers based on kata-containers
- 🚢 porto - Your localhost apps orchestrator
- 🗃️ SQL not-so-lite - Lightweight SQLite-as-a-service daemon with gRPC API and web GUI
- 💀 killswitch - A low footprint resource manager and utility for your MacOS
- 🎤 yt2karaoke - The must have for all good parties, convert youtube videos into karaoke experiences (powered by track2stem)
- ⚒️ Scream Forge - A VST for metal singers, includes a chain with: a compressor, EQ, pitch up/down, exciter, demonizer (or beastifier), echo/reverb, de-esser and more
- 🎵 Track2Stem - Separate any track into multiple stems, with the cool kind of AI (Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation)
- 🔊 AnyTrack Converter - Convert any audio file or YouTube video to any format, with metadata editing
- 📋 Open Playlist - The foundation for an open standard for music playlists, no vendor lock-in
- 🎧 Open Playlist Engine - The first implementation on top of the open playlist idea, mainly helping users migrating off Spotify to various targets
- 🎤 find-concerts.io - A concert discovery service that doesn't absolutely suck like Songkick or Bandsintown - probably will be focused on metal and most -core subgenres, sorry Taylor Swift fans but you probably don't need this as much as we do
- 🎶 Every Music - A music-based social media experiment, giga WIP but an interesting concept I would love to explore (maybe bulding it leveraging ATProtocol and call it MusicSky?)
- 🎸 devoidofbeauty.com - My (latest) band's website, we will publish our debut EP sometime in 2026?
- 💰 Fire Tools - Your personal finance copilot without AI, but also a portfolio tracking tool, completely self-hosted, privacy first
- 🦊 Fiscal Fox - A self hosted accounting software: invoicing, contracts, quotations, expenses/receipts, time and trip tracking... Ideal for freelancers and small businesses
- 📝 LaTeX Editor - A free, open source LaTeX editor with real-time preview, basically OverLeaf but self hosted and free without any limits
- ✅ Eisen Todo - An Eisenhower matrix todo app for productivity, stop guessing wtf to do with your time
- 📄 PDFTools - A simple set of PDF manipulation tools, no third-party uploads needed
- 🔮 Go, get a job! - A tool to track your applications that optimizes resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems and... it does more too
- 🧑💻 Engineering Interviews - Practice platform for System Design and Engineering interviews
- 🗺️ Platform Engineering Roadmap - An opinionated roadmap to becoming a Platform Engineer
- ☁️ Cloud Native Days - Cloud Native Days event resources, it is probably not relevant. Archived.
- 📜 Platform Engineering Manifesto - The Agile Manifesto, but for Platform Engineering, it might still be relevant. Archived.
- 🎮 2DnD - A 2D game based on D&D, duh
- 🕹️ Blockster 2D - A 2D game developed during the Global Game Jam hackathon in Milan, fun to play, might de-archive it in the future but unlikely. Archived.
- 😂 Mock Startup Website - A satiric website mocking the average YC startup
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TLDR; I really like to build and run stuff in the cloud, especially if they pay me big bucks for it.My stack for doing that is the following: - Favorite orchestrator: Kubernetes, duh. BUT. I'm not a fan of using it when it's not needed, so container managed services like ECS or even serverless can be totally fine too. - Cloud provider tier list: 1. God tier - Google Cloud Platform 2. Good but expensive tier - AWS 3. Why would I ever tier - Azure (and I work for MSFT at the time of writing this lol) 4. Every other cloud provider is not even in the tier list, unless you are a teeny tiny company starting out, or a hobbyst. In that case OVH, Hetzner or any other VPS / Cloud works. Just never Oracle or IBM please. I beg you to reconsider. - I obviously prefer docker compose setups for local development environments, and I tend to containerize the services I build: it's easier to later move to microservices (or a keep a monorepo) - For frontend I usually go for React + Vite, I also didn't mind NextJS for a while but after all the CVEs and with the rise of AI I felt less of a frontend framework need. - For backend I try to be mindful. I'm comfortable with Golang and Python mainly for the backend, I don't mind Node.js with Express. I used a lot of Java with Spring Boot back in the days but I'm a bit Rust-y now. I use Rust over C/C++ whenever I need performance, but adjacent to eBPF or kernel the choice is not as obvious. I like wrapping things with GraphQL when possible, mainly for lightening up egress costs for client-heavy loads. RESTful all the way for most CRUD apps, but also gRPC when performance matters. - For databases I adore SQLite when I work locally and Postgres for production environments, especially run on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG. - For cache I tend to prefer Valkey over Redis for licensing and historical reasons. - For event-driven I usually do rabbitmq or Kafka and I've worked with and built custom systems (ask me about puma PMA) - For S3-compatible storage I prefer SeaweedFS over any other alternative. - For mobile Flutter or React Native, never really dove deep into Swift or Kotlin (Android). - For desktop I have a heavy preference for Electron, but I am experimenting with Tauri (multi-platform)