Staff Engineer · Open Source · AI-Augmented
Software engineer with 15+ years delivering end-to-end products — from Rust game engines to Symfony frameworks, from self-hosted infrastructure to LLM agent architecture.
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About
I build things that other engineers rely on — frameworks, platforms, and tools that form the foundation of large production systems. I’ve spent 15+ years in the trenches: architecting complex data models, building ETL pipelines that process millions, writing open-source libraries downloaded 815k+ times, and mentoring developers from junior to senior.
Currently on a deliberate career sabbatical, building Keres — an abstract strategy game with a Rust engine, laser-cut wooden pieces, and a web frontend. I’ve been using AI-assisted development daily since mid-2023 and have developed a rigorous methodology for integrating LLMs into real engineering workflows.
Outside the terminal: scuba diving, off-piste skiing, martial arts (15+ years of Pencak Silat, Hung-Gar, Boxing), FPV drones, VR sim racing, and 3D printing whatever my son dreams up.
Articles
A benchmark on GSM8K with Qwen3-235B exploring compressed chain-of-thought prompting — 60% fewer tokens, same accuracy.
Projects
Abstract strategy game: Rust Negamax engine with alpha-beta pruning, Symfony API, TypeScript/SVG web client. Binary wire protocol. Physical product with laser-engraved wooden pieces on walnut and maple.
Most-downloaded package (427k). Debug toolbar integration for Doctrine ORM, query profiling and analysis within Symfony's web profiler.
Entity-Attribute-Value modelling framework for Symfony. Arbitrary business-defined contextualisation axes, model-in-YAML architecture. Foundation of a commercial platform serving 200+ enterprise clients.
YAML-configured async ETL framework. Extensible pipeline architecture with enqueue-process-bundle extension for RabbitMQ. 51k+ Packagist downloads, core contributor.
Lazy-encryption bundle for Symfony — encrypt at rest, decrypt transparently on read. Handles mcrypt→libsodium migration under client-side key constraint.
15+ containerized services: Authentik SSO, Tailscale, Traefik reverse proxy, Pi-hole DNS, 16TB NAS. Full infrastructure-as-code, zero-trust network model.