Projects

Mostly backend, mostly to find out how it actually works.

2026 → now

buildingbackend

Backend engineering from the ground up: how a computer works, how data crosses a network, servers, APIs, databases, all the way to scale. The hard part is not learning any one of them, it is not skipping the layer underneath. Written down as I go.

github the log

2026

bug-eater

A Telegram bot that swallows a screenshot and spits out a Jira ticket.

2025

jss

A job scheduler on Node, Express, BullMQ, Redis and Mongo — queues, retries, and what happens when a worker dies.

2025

Expense Splitter

A FastAPI service that splits group expenses and settles who owes whom.

2026

findmywork

Finds you a government job, so that nobody random can fire you onto the street.

2026

rolling-events-count

Counting events in a rolling time window, done properly.

2025

Graphify

Any pile of notes into a browsable knowledge graph.