Product Engineer

Systems underneath.

Systems under the surface APIs, data, auth, realtime, caching, background processing, messaging and the pipelines that keep a product honest in production. Close enough to the stack underneath to ship it myself.

Below is where that shows up products I'm building, how I prefer to stack things, and notes on schema, realtime, and shipping.

# prefer

/preferred-stackWhat I reach for first — Turborepo, TypeScript, Go, Better Auth, Postgres, RAG, and all why.
/thesisNotes on taste, tradeoffs, and what good product engineering means.

# systems

/db-schemaHow I approach the schema of any problem — entities, edges, timing.
/realtimeWebSockets, Redis pub/sub, BullMQ — when realtime earns its keep.
/shippingDocker, k8s, Cloudflare, Vercel, Render — infra that isn’t vibes-only.

# builds

/nmemoHow nmemo got made. Context routing, ranking, budgets, and the voice + realtime path next.
/zellrHow Zellr got made — R2, Redis queues, subdomain routing, tunnels.