A bit about me.

I'm Kevin — a software engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. By day I work on backend systems: distributed databases, queues, the plumbing that keeps data moving reliably at scale. I've spent the past eight years thinking about consistency, latency, and the thousand ways a system can quietly misbehave at 3 a.m. I try to build things that are boring in the right ways.

I grew up tinkering with computers because they were the only things I could break and fix without my parents finding out. That spirit of low-stakes experimentation never really left. I still write small tools for myself — most of them live on GitHub, a few have quietly picked up users I've never met, which continues to be the strangest and best part of open source.

Outside the terminal: I read a lot (see /reading), cook slowly on weekends, and have opinions about coffee that I keep mostly to myself. I am not on social media in any meaningful way. This site is where I write.