Engineering leader with 10+ years building decentralized cloud
infrastructure, custom operating systems, and developer platforms: from
bare-metal OS design to Kubernetes orchestration at scale. 6+ of those
years leading engineering teams, 3+ as an engineering manager, currently
running multiple teams on a peer-to-peer cloud spanning thousands of
nodes across 60+ countries.
Experience
Engineering Manager, Codescalers, Jan 2023 -
Present
Manage multiple engineering teams building the ThreeFold Grid, a decentralized P2P
cloud spanning thousands of nodes across 60+ countries.
Own technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and delivery across
the full stack: a custom Linux-based OS, multi-language SDKs, a
Terraform provider, and web dashboards.
Run hiring, onboarding, and mentoring; set engineering standards for
code review, testing, and release process across teams.
Software Development Team Lead, Codescalers, Jan
2020 - Jan 2023
Led development of the Jumpscale cloud automation framework, the
3Bot virtual system administrator, and the Virtual Data Center (VDC)
platform.
Drove system architecture and hands-on development while owning code
quality and on-time delivery for the team.
Software Engineer, Codescalers, Jan 2016 - Jan
2020
Designed and built cloud tooling for VM lifecycle management,
container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
Freelance & Contract Work
Data Analyst, Otlob.com, Jan 2018 - Mar 2018: built
an audio-fingerprinting pipeline over large-scale video datasets to
measure marketing campaign reach.
Web Developer, Orascom Telecom, Jan 2010 - Mar
2010: built an internal PHP/CodeIgniter application for server-room
environmental monitoring, replacing manual Excel workflows.
Selected Projects
Operating Systems & Core Infrastructure
Zero-OS:
lead development of the custom Linux-based OS powering the entire
ThreeFold Grid (Go).
ContentHive: content-addressed storage system inspired by
IPFS (Go).
0-Disk: Network Block Device server with pluggable storage
backends (Tarantool, Lua).
OpenVCloud: monitoring, alerting, and hardware
health-checks for a libvirt-based cloud platform (Python).
Platforms & Developer Tools
KubeCloud:
highly available Kubernetes platform on the ThreeFold Grid (Go, Vue.js,
PostgreSQL).
VDC:
Virtual Data Center with managed Kubernetes clusters, S3 storage, and
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring (Python, Stellar, Ansible).
VDC
Marketplace: one-click application deployment marketplace built
on top of VDC.
AIBroker: AI gateway aggregating multiple LLM providers
with MCP server integration (Rust, Go).
Terraform
Provider: Infrastructure-as-Code plugin for provisioning on the
ThreeFold Grid (Go).
TFRobot:
mass-deployment tool for large VM fleets (Go).
Gridify:
Heroku-like deploy tool for the ThreeFold Grid (Go).
Farmerbot:
power-management and operations automation for grid farmers (Go).
SDKs & Frameworks
Go
SDK: primary SDK enabling delivery of multiple grid-based
projects (Go).
TypeScript
SDK: web developer SDK for ThreeFold Grid integration
(TypeScript).
JS-SDK:
Threebot application server built on JS-NG (Python).
EWF:
embeddable workflow framework for resilient, stateful multi-step
processes (Go).
CRM: CRM
system for the ThreeFold Token Foundation (Python, Flask, GraphQL,
PostgreSQL).
publishingtools:
web publishing framework for wikis, blogs, and websites (Crystal, Kemal,
Svelte).
Infrastructure Tooling
AYS: agentless Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration with an
event system, background tasks, and service templates.
Go
farmer: cross-platform GUI for farm management (Go, Fyne).
Additional: OAuth provider for Gogs, DMIDecode parser, GitHub-Gogs sync,
and documentation generators for Jumpscale.
Open Source
Networking & Infrastructure
tcprouter: TCP
router with SNI-based routing (Go).
tfgateway:
ThreeFold gateway built on tcprouter and the CoreDNS Redis plugin.
coredns-redis:
Redis plugin for CoreDNS; raqeeb: PID 1 replacement
and alternative to Foreman.
