13 years of building things that work — from bare metal to browser.
I'm a self-taught engineer who started at the bottom of the stack and worked up. Kernel internals, custom Linux distros, C, assembly — that's where I learned how computers actually think. Over 13 years, I moved through systems programming, cybersecurity, reverse engineering, full-stack web development, and framework design. I don't specialize in one layer. I understand the whole machine.
Right now I'm building Lucid — a convention-first Python framework that brings structure and clarity to Python's fragmented web ecosystem. Dependency injection, config management, event-driven architecture, and clean pipelines — all wired together. Five packages on PyPI, all open source, all built from scratch.
I've spent over a decade inside Laravel and its ecosystem. I know what good framework design feels like — and I'm bringing that feeling to Python because Python deserves it.
Systems & Security — I've built hardened Linux environments, custom threat detection systems, automated countermeasure pipelines, and sandbox isolation setups. Not with vendor tools. With C, shell scripts, and daemons I wrote myself. My homelab is a functioning security operations center.
Framework & API Design — 13 years of building production web applications. Laravel, Vue.js, TypeScript, Python. I think in service containers, middleware pipelines, and event-driven architectures. I've designed and shipped the Lucid ecosystem — five Python packages that compose into a full application framework.
Low-Level Programming — C, Rust, assembly. Memory management, kernel modules, reverse engineering obfuscated binaries. I've rebuilt parts of operating systems to understand how they work. When something is a black box, I open it.
Open Source — Everything I build goes public. I believe the best tools are the ones other developers can read, fork, and improve. Long term, I want to maintain software that helps people build better things.
A convention-first Python framework I'm building in public.
| Package | What it does |
|---|---|
| lucid-pipeline | Multi-step data processing with conditional logic and error handling |
| lucid-container | Dependency injection with autowiring from type hints |
| lucid-config | Cascading configuration with .env support and type casting |
| lucid-events | Event dispatcher with prioritized listeners and async support |
| lucid-framework | The glue — one boot sequence, everything wired |
Systems C · Rust · Assembly · Linux Internals · KVM · Proxmox · Docker
Security Custom threat detection · Hardened distros · Reverse engineering · Forensics
Backend Python · PHP · Laravel · SQLAlchemy · PostgreSQL
Frontend TypeScript · Vue.js · Electron
Infrastructure Bare metal · Custom VMs · iptables · auditd · fail2ban
- Consulting on framework architecture, API design, and developer tooling
- Security audits and systems hardening
- Conference talks on framework design, DI patterns, or building in public
- Open source collaboration