Quint

I build the layers most people never look at: parsers and compilers, GPU backends and the compute shaders they emit, the plumbing that holds distributed systems together. Professionally that has meant implementing specs other people depend on, research engineering and now sovereign infrastructure. In my own time it mostly means Zig. Grammar toolkits, compute kernels, a Radicle implementation. Nothing teaches a system like rebuilding it from scratch or wiring straight into it.

Most of that sits one layer below the application: toolchains, build systems and the machines they run on. I build my own machine from a flake so it comes back identical every time. I run my own hardware on NixOS instead of renting a box, with the metrics and alerting to know when it is unhappy. The feedback loop is the product.

Nearly everything here is free and open source. That is the point rather than a side effect: I care about work that outlives its employer. A SCIM library I started in 2018 outlasted the job it was written for and is still the implementation other teams build on. I have been FOSDEM staff since 2019 for the same reason. Software you cannot read, fork or host yourself is software you do not really control. Lately that has pulled me toward peer-to-peer systems. No host to lose in the first place.