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 design and implement large-scale cloud systems, debug failures, and lead towards continuous improvement. Build tooling, tighten feedback loops, and change testing so engineers can trust their signals. On my own time, host my services with OpenBSD and craft software tools with Go.

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

Questions?

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