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PYLON — API Gateway
Open-source, self-hosted API gateway built in Rust. Handles rate limiting, auth, and analytics for 4,000+ production deployments. Not another BaaS — a real tool for real infrastructure.
STACKFLOW — CI/CD Platform
Developer tools that make pipelines fast. YC W23 company. We cut build times by 60% for mid-stage startups. $2.1M raised, 3 engineers, zero meetings.
VERSO — Static Blog Engine
Markdown-first blog for developers who care about writing, not CMS dashboards. Deploys to any CDN in under 30 seconds. No database, no JS, no BS.
AETHER — Observability
Lightweight observability stack for small teams. Logs, metrics, and traces in a single dashboard. Built because Datadog is too expensive and Grafana is too complex.
ABOUT
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I build software for a living. Not the kind that sits in a backlog — the kind that ships. I'm the creator of Pylon, an open-source API gateway that over 4,000 developers use in production. I co-founded Stackflow, a developer tools company backed by Y Combinator (W23), where we raised $2.1M to make CI/CD pipelines stupidly fast. Before that, I spent four years at a consultancy building web apps for banks and governments — boring work, but it taught me how real software needs to behave. I write about building in public on my blog and speak at conferences about indie hacking, open source sustainability, and why most developer tools are overcomplicated. I believe in small teams, opinionated software, and shipping every single day.
"The best code is the code you never had to write. The best meeting is the one you cancelled. Ship it."
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