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What I am doing this month. Updated by hand.
- Role
- Senior Backend Engineer at StartButton Africa: payment workflows across 15+ African markets.
- Building
- RelayMQ, a lightweight, local-first message broker in Rust, with built-in observability and a live view of how messages move and fail.
- Content
- Engineering Judgment: practical lessons about technical decisions, trade-offs and systems thinking.
- Research
- Predictive auto-scaling: when deep learning forecasts actually beat a naive baseline.
Updated by hand, Aug 2026