About
a little bit about me
Hi there!
I’m a Site Reliability Engineer focused on performance and diagnostics, which means I spend my days on the machinery underneath the systems people actually use: storage, networking, the reliability plumbing nobody notices until it fails. I’ve been doing this long enough to trust that understanding why something works outlasts knowing how to operate it, and that the problems worth chasing are usually the ones that looked simple from the outside.
I’m the kind of person who gets nerd-sniped easily. Someone mentions inflation in a way I can’t quite explain, and I lose a week to monetary policy. I wonder why certain sounds feel natural in certain languages, and a Saturday disappears into phonology. Physics, economics, language design, compiler theory: I’ve passed through all of them, not as an expert in any, just someone who can’t leave a question alone once it gets interesting.
I think in mental models. I’d rather build a rough framework I can reason with than memorize a precise answer I’ll need to look up again next time. I distrust hand-waving. I’d rather say “I don’t know” than fake understanding.