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What I'm doing now

A snapshot of what I'm focused on right now. Inspired by Derek Sivers' now page movement.

Last updated: February 2026

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Work

Software Engineer at Initializ.ai — architecting a high-traffic lending platform and building a RAG-based AI assistant to help users query and understand their infrastructure.
Focused on Go and Elixir backends, Kubernetes deployments, and AWS infrastructure.

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Building

This blog — adding new content, improving SEO, and making the reading experience better.
Small internal tooling at work to automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.

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Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann — rereading chapters on replication and distributed transactions.
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Teiva Harsanyi.

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Learning

Going deeper into Elixir — OTP, GenServers, and the fault-tolerance model.
Exploring vector databases and embedding pipelines for the RAG system at work.

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Writing

Working on a post about how Kubernetes controllers work internally.
Planning a series on building distributed systems in Go from scratch.

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