About

DevOps & SRE engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer experience. Writing about the craft of running systems at scale.

I write about the craft of running systems at scale — from Kubernetes internals to observability pipelines, from IaC patterns to on-call culture. This site is where those thoughts land.

When I'm not debugging production, I'm building tools that make infrastructure easier to reason about.

Beyond the Terminal

I'm an INTP— the kind of person who can't resist pulling a system apart to understand exactly why it works. That same instinct is what drew me to infrastructure, and to divination.

I study Chinese metaphysics (玄学 xuánxué) seriously — not as superstition but as a structured symbolic system for reasoning about time, change, and probability. The three disciplines I spend the most time with:

Liu Yao (六爻) — King Wen I Ching divination. Six moving lines cast from coins or yarrow, read as a dynamic system of relationships between Heaven, Earth, and the ten stems. I find the deterministic structure of the hexagram (卦 guà) oddly similar to reading a flame graph.
Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数) — Purple Star Astrology. A natal chart divided into twelve palaces (宫 gōng) mapping a lifetime's worth of cycles, each palace governed by stars (星曜 xīngyào) that interact the way microservices interact: individually well-defined, collectively emergent.
Ba Zi (八字) — Four Pillars of Destiny. Eight characters (year, month, day, hour — each split into a Heavenly Stem 天干 and Earthly Branch 地支) encoding a person's elemental composition. Reading a Ba Zi chart is a lesson in resource contention: which elements are abundant, which are scarce, and where the bottleneck sits.

The overlap with SRE thinking is real — both fields are about modeling complex systems, surfacing hidden dependencies, and making probabilistic calls under uncertainty. I take both seriously.