Distinguished Engineer · Open Source Craftsman · Polyglot
I build systems that observe, orchestrate, and scale. Currently the Lead Observability Architect at GEICO, where I rebuilt the entire observability platform from the ground up on open standards, handling 500M+ active time series across AWS, Azure, and private cloud. Before that I founded Cloudseed in South Africa, scaling a managed services platform to 2 million users across 2,500 locations. I co-founded yaklab, a software development cooperative dedicated to beautiful software and open source tooling. Three decades in, I still care most about the craft.
Deep technical writing on observability architecture, Go patterns, Kubernetes internals, and OpenTelemetry pipelines.
→ read postsOpen source tools built at yaklab and personally. Linters, build systems, parsers, and infrastructure utilities, mostly in Go.
→ view projectsCheat sheets, reference guides, and field notes from years of working in terminals, clusters, and codebases.
→ browseThree decades of experience, skills, and education, kept current. Readable here or downloadable as a PDF.
→ read resumeA book on Rust, from ownership and lifetimes through to async and unsafe, with a runnable workbench in the browser.
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