Thoughts & Builds

Building DevSecOps tools, open-source projects, and production engineering systems — written up as I go.

Distributed Systems — A Visual Explainer

CAP theorem, consensus algorithms, replication strategies, network partitions, observability, service mesh, consistent hashing, load balancing, and message queues — all taught through live 3D graphics that change as you scroll.

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369 Rules, Zero Trust: CredVigil, an Open-Source Credential Scanner in Go

I saw it constantly — API keys in JMeter scripts, database strings hardcoded in test configs, tokens in CI/CD pipelines. Every time: rotate, and "we should really scan for this." So I built the thing: a secrets scanner with triple-signal detection and a zero-trust post-processing pipeline that never stores raw credentials.

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