I'm a metal(core) singer with 12+ years of experience in tech.
Currently living in Northern Europe and working at GitHub (you are looking at it).
My decade in the space had me doing Software Engineering, Platform Engineering (lots of k8s), Developer Relations, Field Marketing, Sales/Revenue Engineering, co-founding a startup and freelancing which is basically me being a one-man company. Order of these is random.
Have you seen Everything Everywhere All at Once? I am the tech version of that.
"I like to define myself as a jack of most (tech) trades, master of some." - Confucius when talking about me, in a dream
- Freelance services offered:
- Kubernetes assessment, optimization and strategy (not really for startups, you don't need that)
- Platform Engineering (again, not really for startups)
- Helping you hire the right engineers for the job (for every software company)
- Product Market Fit & Go To Market (this is mainly for startups and scaleups or enterprises with innovative product lines on top of their current business)
- Open Source strategy (for every company, regardless of their domain)
- Open source on Kubernetes upstream, in the Release Engineering team - find me as mbianchidev on the k8s Slack
- I just like maintainance and doing the work, no politics (or as low as humanly possible)
- Mentoring engineers via Mentorcruise and other channels
- a very selected few mentees at a time (usually 2, maximum 3)
- no 100% beginners
- no leeching (if you are ready there's no point in me to keep mentoring you)
- no bullshit
- a month for free if you recently got laid off subject to (my) availability, first come first served
I also work on a number of different software projects, some for fun, some to free myself from paying lots of SaaS, some for (hopefully) future profit so I can retire early.
- 🔮 go-get-a-job - A tool to track your applications that optimizes resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems and... it does more too
- 📦 sendbox - An all-in-one sandbox for Copilot CLI and agents, written in Swift, integrated with devcontainers and based on Apple Virtualization (kata-containers ftw)
- 🎤 yt2karaoke - The must have for all good parties, convert youtube videos into karaoke experiences (powered by track2stem)
- 🎸 devoidofbeauty.com - My (latest) band's website, we will publish our debut EP sometime in 2026?
- 💰 Fire Tools - Your personal finance copilot without AI, but also a portfolio tracking tool, completely self-hosted, privacy first
- 🗃️ SQL Not So Lite - Lightweight SQLite-as-a-service daemon with gRPC API and web GUI
- 💀 Kill-switch - A switch to kill your MacOS processes
- 🎵 Track2Stem - Separate any track into multiple stems, with the cool kind of AI (Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation)
- 🎤 Find-concerts.io - A concert discovery service that doesn't absolutely suck like Songkick or Bandsintown - probably will be focused on metal and most -core subgenres, sorry Taylor Swift fans but you probably don't need this as much as we do
- 🎶 Every Music - A music-based social media experiment, giga WIP but an interesting concept I would love to explore (maybe bulding it leveraging ATProtocol and call it MusicSky?)
- 🔊 AnyTrack Converter - Convert any audio file or YouTube video to any format, with metadata editing
- 📋 Open Playlist - The foundation for an open standard for music playlists, no vendor lock-in. Very WIP
- 📝 LaTeX Editor - A free, open source LaTeX editor with real-time preview, basically OverLeaf but self hosted and free without any limits
- ✅ Eisen Todo - An Eisenhower matrix todo app for productivity, stop guessing wtf to do with your time
- 📄 PDFTools - A simple set of PDF manipulation tools, no third-party uploads needed
- 🧑💻 Engineering Interviews - Practice platform for System Design and Engineering interviews
- 🗺️ Platform Engineering Roadmap - An opinionated roadmap to becoming a Platform Engineer
- 🎮 2DnD - A 2D game based on D&D, duh
- 😂 Mock Startup Website - A satiric website mocking the average YC startup
- ☸️ KLab CLI - A CLI to manage Kubernetes clusters consistently across clouds and tenants. Outdated af.
- 💵 Financial Cool - A curated list of financial resources, projects and products. There's better out there, Reddit communities already have it all.
- 🕹️ Blockster 2D - A 2D game developed during the Global Game Jam hackathon in Milan, fun to play, might de-archive it in the future but unlikely.
- ☁️ Cloud Native Days - Cloud Native Days event resources, it is probably not relevant.
- 📜 Platform Engineering Manifesto - The Agile Manifesto, but for Platform Engineering, it might still be relevant.
Details
| Method | Details |
|---|---|
| 🔐 Secure Messages | public GPG key to message me about sensitive matters |
⚠️ If you need to report any OSS security vulnerability use the project security.md file and follow the instructions, thanks!
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TLDR; I really like to build stuff in the cloud, especially if they pay me big bucks for it.
