Current Focus
Professionally, I am waiting for the AIVD screening required before I can begin an assignment at the Ministry of Defence. Through Dataworkz, I am working with smaller clients such as CeraCare and taking on focused projects that can deliver meaningful results within a shorter timeframe.
My focus remains on production data and AI systems that have become difficult to change, operate or scale: understanding where complexity has accumulated, improving observability and leaving systems easier for teams to own.
Over the next couple of months, the aim is to be ready to start the Defence assignment when the screening is complete, while also closing loose ends across LogWatchr, AptPeek and my current lab work.
Building
Personal engineering time is spread across a small number of projects:
- LogWatchr, a Go and ClickHouse system for monitoring Certificate Transparency data.
- AptPeek, a web interface and API for exploring Debian and Ubuntu package repositories.
- the Nomad and Consul infrastructure behind my public services.
- small experiments that test architectural and performance choices before they reach larger systems.
Learning
I am spending more time on leadership and communication.
Right now, that means practising how to:
- explain technical risks clearly without overstating them;
- give enough context for others to make good decisions;
- mentor without taking ownership away from the team.
The goal is not to move away from engineering, but to help teams make better technical decisions without becoming the bottleneck.
In the Lab
My NVIDIA DGX Spark is the centre of my current AI and high-performance computing experiments.
I am using it for local inference, embeddings and serving-runtime comparisons, with most of the attention on memory use, latency, routing, scheduling and observability.
I am also working with a 30× whole-genome sequencing dataset, currently focused on quality control, reproducible processing and understanding the data before attempting broader analysis.
Outside the Terminal
A large part of life revolves around Sofia and learning how work, personal projects and being a father fit together.
Technical time is less predictable, which makes me more selective about what deserves it. Outside of that, I enjoy riding motorcycles, and astronomy and astrophotography — often travelling to darker sites for the night sky.
Not Doing
I am not starting personal projects simply because the initial idea is interesting. New services, abstractions and experiments need to justify the complexity and maintenance they add.
Writing
I am publishing shorter notes on model serving, infrastructure, performance investigations and lessons from operating systems, alongside longer articles when a subject needs more space.
The aim is to capture concrete decisions, trade-offs and mistakes while they are still fresh.
Last updated: 2 August 2026. Inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page idea.