Agora - an e-commerce platform split into six independent services, used as a vehicle for the problems that only show up once you split things up: saga orchestration with compensating actions, the transactional outbox, idempotent payment handling, and a single trace that survives a trip through a message queue.
- AWS cloud-native architecture - serverless, containers, event-driven patterns, and infrastructure as code (CDK)
- Distributed systems patterns β sagas, transactional outbox, idempotency, at-least-once delivery and what it costs downstream
- Kubernetes & IaC β k3s, Helm, Terraform, and sizing workloads that have to fit
- Observability β OpenTelemetry, trace context propagation across async boundaries
- Go β performant backend services and CLI tools
- Open-source projects with real-world impact
- Cloud-native reference architectures and developer tooling
- Anywhere I can contribute backend engineering, infrastructure as code, or security hardening




