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Engineer from silicon to cloud


My personal site about side hustles, notes, and products built across three continents. This boosts my productivity and pays the (some) bills.

What I build

Manu's GitHub contribution chart

KubeLab

I wanted to understand how platforms actually work — not just click buttons on managed K8s. So I built one from scratch. 5 physical nodes, K3s, VPN mesh, SSO, full observability. Everything IaC, nothing manual.

Hive

AI assistants waste tokens loading context they don't need. Hive queries your Obsidian vault on demand via MCP — only what's relevant, when it's relevant. 67-82% token reduction.

Pollex

Cloud LLM APIs see everything you type. Pollex polishes your English on a $99 Jetson Nano — grammar, coherence, wording. 3-second inference, zero cloud dependencies.

ts-bridge

Corporate firewalls block VPN clients that need admin rights. ts-bridge tunnels RDP/SSH through Tailscale in userspace — no install, no admin, no traces. One binary.

pdf-modifier-mcp

Find-and-replace in PDFs without destroying the formatting. CLI for batch jobs, MCP server for AI agents.

yt-metrics-cli

YouTube Studio analytics are shallow and locked to your own channel. This CLI pulls metrics for any public channel and exports everything.

kasa-provisioner

Configuring 20 smart plugs one by one through a phone app is painful. This scans the network, updates firmware, and sets schedules in bulk.

dotfiles

Dev environment that rebuilds itself. Zsh, Neovim, tmux, Git — one script on a fresh machine.

What I work with

On-Premises Linux · Proxmox · Bare metal
Orchestration Kubernetes · Docker · Helm
IaC Terraform · Ansible
Languages Python · Go
Observability Prometheus · Grafana · Loki
CI/CD GitHub Actions · ArgoCD
Cloud AWS

Community & background

Rower. Multi-year national champion, actively competing