brandon@dev
RoleSenior Backend Engineer
FocusDistributed systems & perf
Garden39 notes · 2 posts
Editorneovim btw
9–5Java · Python · AWS
After-hrsRust · Go
LocationBoston, MA
Status● online
I build high-performance distributed systems by day. By night, this is my workshop — a digital garden where I keep messy notes on the things I refused to learn the easy way: performance, protocols, and the occasional gloriously pointless side project.
// currently: building a redis clone, for fun
★ FEATURED
~/blog/escaping-tutorial-hell.md · Dec 27, 2025
Escaping tutorial hell
Breaking free from analysis paralysis by building a ridiculous password-roasting API. How I learned to ship first and optimize later.