Backend engineer focused on distributed systems and squeezing out performance where most people stop looking. I spend most of my time in Go, occasionally venturing into Python or TypeScript when the situation calls for it.

Things I work with:

• Go — primary language, most of my serious work lives here
• Python — scripting, data wrangling, quick tooling
• TypeScript — when I have to touch a frontend or write a halfway decent CLI wrapper
• Kubernetes / Docker — deployment and infra day-to-day
• PostgreSQL, Redis — the usual suspects
• Terraform — infrastructure I can actually version control

What I'm into:

• Distributed systems design and the tradeoffs nobody talks about
• Building CLI tools that don't make me want to close the terminal
• Infra automation and making deploys boring (in a good way)
• Profiling and optimization — finding the slow part is half the fun

Currently working on:

A small job queue library in Go — nothing groundbreaking, just scratching an itch with how existing solutions handle backpressure.

Reach me:

Open an issue, send a PR, or find me at cvapkin1 on most platforms.