Software engineer who enjoys working on developer tooling, backend services, observability infrastructure, and distributed systems.

Pushing the boundaries of what the Discourse platform can do.

• Yaks: Virtual Currency System - A Discourse plugin for spendable in-forum currency Implements topic pinning, boosting, and custom flair using Discourse's APIs and background jobs. repo part 1 part 2 part 3

• Transit Tracker - Live transit departure board built entirely in Discourse topics Uses GTFS feeds (Amtrak, MTA) and the AviationStack API to render real-time schedules. repo blog

A full-featured, PostgreSQL exporter for Prometheus:

• Multi-database scrape support via config-driven connection pools
• Dynamic metric registration from SQL queries (queries.json)
• Full scrape fault isolation using Promise.allSettled
• API key secured /metrics endpoint
• Self-observability metrics (scrape duration, scrape errors, scrape lockouts)
• Graceful shutdown & pool-level error handling
• Fully containerized with Docker Compose
• CI pipeline with automated tests using Vitest

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Lightweight terminal-based music player inspired by cmus:

• Built with async Rust, crossterm, and Symphonia for audio decoding
• Supports FLAC metadata extraction and seeking
• Direct screen selection (non-cycling interface)
• Custom library indexing and local file scanning

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A fully decentralized, verifiable voting system built entirely on Git:

• Votes submitted via forked branches and pull requests
• Immutable hash-linked blocks generated post-merge
• CI-enforced validation of vote format, schema compliance, and duplicate prevention
• Fully auditable offline: entire election state lives in the Git repo
• No servers, backend, or blockchain infrastructure required
• Rust CLI tool with modular subcommands (cast, validate, build-chain, tally)

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• Rust, TypeScript, Node.js
• Systems design
• Observability & monitoring
• Infrastructure automation
• TUIs