I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies with 14 years of building backend and cloud platforms. I set the technical direction for the distributed job orchestration engine behind Dell OpenManage Enterprise: Go microservices on k3s, coordinated through Kafka and backed by Valkey and PostgreSQL, running 10,000 concurrent jobs in production.
I care about the unglamorous parts that make platforms trustworthy: clean service boundaries, failure handling, secrets management, and systems that are easy to operate at 3 a.m.
Engineering blogs I follow closely:
Books on architecture and observability I keep coming back to:
