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Software Engineer · Cloud Native · DevOps/SRE
I build and write about distributed systems, observability, and supply-chain security.
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See all →Setting Up a PostgreSQL HA Cluster with Patroni and etcd
How to build a PostgreSQL high-availability cluster with automatic failover using Patroni, etcd, HAProxy and Keepalived. Learn the architecture, prerequisites, and step-by-step deployment so any node failure is handled with zero app changes.
June 25, 2026
Why I built my own MongoDB image to run a replica set in production
A field report: deploying a 3-node MongoDB replica set with Docker, and why baking the config into a custom image instead of mounting volumes makes deployments reproducible across environments that don't look alike.
December 13, 2025
How a job interview led me to create Obscura - A password generator with real entropy
From interview challenge to open-source tool, to building a secure password generator with real entropy in mind.
April 13, 2025
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See all →Sentinel
Sentinel is an open-source backup and restoration tool designed for seamless management of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB databases, in Docker, Kubernetes, and local environments