About me

I ran RedHat 5.2 Linux (Apollo) on a home built i386 PC. Dialed up every day on a Sportster® Voice 33.6 Faxmodem. Bought an iBook G3 for Mac OS X — BSD Unix on a consumer laptop. Wrote Perl wrangling bare metal Linux, BSD, and Solaris boxes with tinydns and qmail. Stumbled into Python. Built distributed testing frameworks with SWIG and Django. Built software at Microsoft, Amazon, and organizations of every size. Worked as a system administrator, tester, developer, and infrastructure engineer.

Today, I help keep essential services reliable and debug complex failures in large-scale cloud systems. Build tooling, tighten feedback loops, and improve test frameworks so engineers can trust their signals. I dig into data with pandas, matplotlib, and Jupyter notebooks. On my own time, I host my services with OpenBSD and craft software tools with Go.

I care deeply about simple software, rigorous testing, and open protocols.

Questions?

Send an email to ‘carlos’ at this domain. You can find me on Mastodon and LinkedIn.