Hi, I'm David!

I build operational software, developer infrastructure, and scalable backend systems using TypeScript, Postgres, Docker, and cloud platforms.

I care about how software behaves in production, not just how it looks in a demo. My background includes platform-facing customer work at Vercel, where I helped customers troubleshoot deployments, routing, DNS, environment configuration, and the kinds of operational issues that appear once real systems are live.

Alongside that experience, I’ve spent years building and self-hosting projects focused on observability, telemetry, infrastructure, and backend architecture. I’m especially interested in the operational layers that keep systems reliable as complexity, traffic, and data scale.

Today I focus on backend architecture, observability, telemetry, and the operational layers that keep systems reliable as data and traffic grow. Explore my projects, technical writing, or GitHub.

Stack

What I build with

TypeScript-first backends and operational tooling, from the database layer through Dockerized deployment on Cloudflare and my VPS.

Backend & Apps

TypeScript
Node.js
Next.js
Prisma

Data & APIs

PostgreSQL
REST APIs
WebSockets

Infrastructure

Docker
Apache
Cloudflare
VPS

Engineering Principles

What guides my engineering decisions

Production first

Design for how systems behave under real traffic, auth, and failure modes after launch.

Observability

Metrics, health checks, and telemetry that tell operators what is actually happening.

Ownership

Own architecture through deployment: data layer, APIs, proxies, and the ops around them.

Systems thinking

Query patterns, caching, and infrastructure choices that determine whether scale holds.