Software engineer who enjoys working on developer tooling, backend services, observability infrastructure, and distributed systems.

Self-hosted alternative to Last.fm with public profile pages:

• Built with Rust, Axum, and PostgreSQL
• Token-based authentication with bcrypt password hashing
• RESTful API for submitting scrobbles from music players
• Public profile pages showing listening history and stats
• Embedded migrations via sqlx
• Designed for single-user or small community deployment

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Running personal infrastructure with systemd instead of Docker:

• Manages Gitea, Woodpecker CI, Scrob, GoatCounter (3 instances), Caddy, PostgreSQL
• Declarative config in git with simple bash scripts
• Bootstrap script for initial setup, deploy script for updates
• Automated binary updates via GitHub releases API
• Simple, explicit, debuggable - no container orchestration overhead

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A TOML-based resume format with strict validation and static generation:

• JOBL: Structured resume specification with version-aware parsing
• Type-safe validation with comprehensive error reporting
• Portable .jobl files for version control and collaboration
• SRG: Static generator converting JOBL to HTML and PDF
• Clean, professional templates optimized for screen and print

JOBL repo SRG repo

A Discourse plugin implementing spendable in-forum currency:

• Topic pinning, boosting, and custom flair purchases
• Background jobs for transaction processing
• Integration with Discourse's user system and permissions
• Custom admin interface for currency management

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Lightweight terminal-based music player inspired by cmus:

• Smart metadata handling with directory-based album grouping
• Filename fallbacks for missing ID3 tags
• ZIP import for extracting albums from compressed files
• Search functionality with fuzzy matching
• Playback controls with autoplay and repeat modes
• macOS compatibility

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Terminal-based podcast player with RSS/Atom feed support:

• Built with ratatui and crossterm
• Podcast discovery via gpodder.net integration
• Episode playback with ALSA/CPAL audio backend
• Feed refresh and episode tracking
• Pause/resume with proper state management
• Persistent library storage

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• Rust (TUI development, audio processing, systems programming)
• TypeScript, Node.js
• Ruby on Rails & Discourse plugin development
• Systems design & distributed systems
• Observability & monitoring (Prometheus, metrics exporters)
• Infrastructure automation (Docker, CI/CD, Makefiles)
• Developer tooling & CLI applications
• Music metadata standards (ID3, RSS/Atom feeds)