Software Engineer with a cybersecurity and computer science background, focused on secure backend systems, platform engineering, and developer automation.
Current work spans Python and FastAPI services, asynchronous processing, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitOps, identity systems, and observability.
Technical interests center on secure API design, distributed systems, application security, infrastructure automation, software supply-chain security, and AI-assisted engineering workflows that preserve review, verification, and actual comprehension.
flowchart LR
SEC[Security foundations] --> API[Secure backend systems]
API --> CONTAINERS[Containerized workloads]
CONTAINERS --> PLATFORM[Platform automation]
PLATFORM --> O11Y[Observable infrastructure]
O11Y -. operational feedback .-> SEC
flowchart TB
INPUT[Product and security requirements]
subgraph BUILD[Build]
API[FastAPI services]
ASYNC[Async processing]
DATA[PostgreSQL and Redis]
UI[TypeScript and SvelteKit]
end
subgraph SHIP[Ship]
CI[GitHub Actions]
IMAGE[Hardened containers]
HELM[Helm packaging]
GITOPS[Argo CD and GitOps]
end
subgraph RUN[Run]
K8S[Kubernetes]
IAM[OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and RBAC]
O11Y[Metrics, traces, and logs]
end
INPUT --> BUILD
BUILD --> CI
CI --> IMAGE
IMAGE --> HELM
HELM --> GITOPS
GITOPS --> K8S
API --> IAM
ASYNC --> DATA
K8S --> O11Y
O11Y -. feedback .-> BUILD
flowchart LR
FOCUS[Current focus]
FOCUS --> SECURITY[Security]
SECURITY --> APISEC[Secure API design]
SECURITY --> IAM[Identity and access management]
SECURITY --> SUPPLY[Software supply-chain security]
FOCUS --> SYSTEMS[Systems]
SYSTEMS --> ASYNC[Async Python]
SYSTEMS --> DIST[Distributed systems]
SYSTEMS --> TOOLING[Developer tooling]
FOCUS --> PLATFORM[Platform]
PLATFORM --> K8S[Kubernetes and GitOps]
PLATFORM --> AUTO[Infrastructure automation]
PLATFORM --> OBS[Observability]
FOCUS --> AI[Applied AI]
AI --> AGENTIC[Agentic engineering]
AI --> AISEC[AI security]