Platform / SRE / Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience building, operating, and improving production infrastructure.
I’ve owned production platforms across AWS and GCP, working across Kubernetes/GKE, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, networking, security, disaster recovery, migrations, and on-call.
Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, Pulumi, Docker, Go, Python, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Linux, PostgreSQL, and soo many more related tech that goes alongside this.
I’ve worked on problems spanning reliability, infrastructure automation, developer platforms, DevEx, cost optimization, production operations, capacity/scaling, migrations, and incident response. I enjoy the messy problems where there isn’t an obvious solution and where getting the system right requires understanding both the infrastructure and the people using it.
Outside of work, I’m building and operating my own SaaS (RoleReady.me) as a long-term side project. I’m also a heavy user of agentic AI tooling, which I’ve been using to significantly expand how quickly I can build, automate, investigate, and ship.
Looking for a strong Platform / SRE / Cloud / Infrastructure role where I can own systems end-to-end, work close to the engineering organization, and tackle difficult production problems. Open to both IC and high-ownership platform engineering roles, including opportunities outside Toronto.
Thanks for opening my personal website and reading enough to even notice those words in the footer I guess. Im not sure what the call out is. AI bad or that my site looks BAD ? What specifically is the issue? the little squares in the corner of the blog post cards? Thats an AI-ism I guess but the rest of the site is built on my own code and most of the design and aesthetic choices predate coding agents so I guess your beef is with my aesthetic choices?
I could go back to my old design , but no one but me ever liked it.
This is an inherently inefficient design, where that inefficiency means increased 1) battery use and 2) tire wear.
From a cyclist’s perspective, this is fundamentally a stopgap product for “curious” customers dipping their toes into e-bikes. I don’t say that necessarily to criticize it. There’s a place for a product that someone can put on any old bike and see if they want to buy a more expensive long-term solution. But that doesn’t make it a product I’d recommend.
The tire wear problem is significant enough that there are heat resistant tires specifically for this type of drum application (designed for old-style indoor trainers, not for use on the road), because use on a drum will cause premature wear for normal road tires.
it's also likely mildly more dangerous than a standard ebike, as ebikes typically overprovision their brakes. A customer putting this on a standard bike (especially a disc brake bike) might have less stopping power than they want on an ebike.
I wouldn't worry about it in this application, because the added weight and power is so minimal. Also: many of the cheap ebikes ($1000-1500 range) have absolutely terrible, underprovisioned brakes.
The requirement for better brakes is more a myth. Yes an e-bike is heavier but the rider + bike pair is not significantly heavier so e-bikes don't really need better brakes as most of them aren't going significantly faster than regular "muscular bikes", especially the legal ones that have an assistance speed limit. Rider weight makes a much bigger difference yet bike brands don't insist on speccing more powerful brakes on bigger riders.
I think this is basically correct, although ebikes shift the distribution rightward -- the average rider+bike system is marginally heavier, average speeds are marginally higher -- at the margin, someone is going to be unable to brake to prevent a collision they would otherwise be able to. But it's also true that heavier riders on manual bikes should often consider brake upgrades.
As an experienced mountain biker I’d love if the downvoters could engage with the comment. I agree with it. A proper legal e-bike, especially when clamped to 25 km/h or a similar limit, doesn’t really need that much stopping power than a comparable regular bike. Maybe the sum of all the factors (often less experienced riders, slightly more speed in some situations, slightly higher weight) warrants going to a bigger rotor diameter or a different brake pads compound, which is how it’s usually done. But it’s still nothing compared to speccing cargo bike brakes or tandem brakes, there you really have to account for the weight and go all the way to like 200mm rotors and four-pot calipers.
Why “especially a disc brake bike”? They’re the most reliable and resilient system so far, especially compared to rim brakes (V-brakes or cantilevers).
Nothing Tokyo specific about that, biking in the rain is dangerous and generally sucky. I have good all weather gear, but I still end up with wet shoes/socks and muddy spray up my back and legs (yes, I have a mudguard, but it's not 100% effective).
The little tool it outputted is nice, but click around the stages and the text is not high quality at all. The snippy titles, abbrievated explanations, I wish a few more iterations and thought was put into the actual main textual content. Especially for 'complex' stuff
I know. What I meant by owning was about the creator aspect of it, and I just cannot accept Disney as the creator.
Back when I was a kid, there were two toy stores near my grandma's house and they had such a competition. And people were always buying and there was sort of a hype between the two, you could either believe in this or that. And then once my mom asked one of them about something and they told us both stores were owned by one person...
And now you can think you are with or against the corporate Java and in the end you are under Oracle no matter what.
Congrats to Can! I am using Herdr and i think its a great tool. A modern solo dev success story , very inspirational.
I see some negative comments here that I could understand why funding scares them when it comes to their open source tool but like.. atleast congratulate the guy.
Yeah I was using cmux but it was Mac only and now I run herdr on my wsl and tunnel in from Mac and it’s awesome that it just mirrors everything. I like it and congrats to the founder
I did. The guy claims to be a divinely anointed ruler. It says that before age fourteen a voice told him he was chosen, and it calls him “God’s chosen prince of the Universe.” His 17 commandments on page 57 randomly name drop people stealing hundreds of thousands from him and commiting terrorism.
This aligns with what I've experienced using openrouter.
Are there competitors that handle these same issues better?
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