Backend engineer.
I build fast, reliable systems.
7 years working on distributed infrastructure, API design, and developer tooling. Currently focused on Rust and Go. Based in Berlin.
Writing
Recent articles
Zero-copy parsing in Rust: a practical guide
How to build parsers that allocate almost nothing and still stay readable.
Writing a QUIC connection pool from scratch
Lessons learned building a high-throughput pool with proper backpressure.
Why I stopped using Docker Compose for local dev
And what I replaced it with — a look at Nix shells and process-compose.
mTLS in practice: pitfalls nobody talks about
Certificate rotation, clock skew, and why your health checks will break.
Projects
Things I've built
blink
A minimal HTTP/2 reverse proxy written in Rust. Handles 180k req/s on a single core.
confkit
Config management library for Go — layered env, file, and remote sources with hot reload.
depot
Self-hosted artifact registry with S3-compatible storage and a dead-simple API.
netprobe
CLI tool for passive network analysis. Captures, decodes, and diffs protocol flows.
Stack