Back-end software engineer since 2021. I build small, explicit Go libraries with zero external dependencies — and the infrastructure components around them.

Based in Armenia.

I design and maintain an open-source ecosystem for running Go services:

• samsara — a small, explicit lifecycle runtime for Go services. Coordinates startup, health monitoring, graceful shutdown, and orchestrator integration, with zero external dependencies.
• samsara-components — production-ready infrastructure components for samsara: Fiber, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and S3, each following one consistent lifecycle pattern.
• mishap — a small, explicit typed error-code package for Go, with zero external dependencies.

And two projects that take a different shape:

• Vitae Viscera — an asynchronous biopunk colony sim, and where samsara runs in production. You grow a living flesh-ecosystem: feed it, spawn creature-drones, send them on missions, and mutate what comes back. A Go backend — a domain per feature, argon2id passwords with rotating refresh tokens, and an event log stored as a recipe and rendered in the reader's own language — behind a React SPA on PostgreSQL. A solo project, currently in closed alpha: the source is private, but it is live and playable by invite at vitae-viscera.suncake.xyz.
• NoiR-Code — a QR-like code rendered as a hand-inked noir art piece. It encodes text into a halftone cityscape and reads it back from a photo, using grayscale tonal channels and Reed–Solomon error correction. Go gateway, Python computer-vision sidecar, React frontend. Live at noir-code.suncake.xyz.

• Idiomatic Go with small, explicit APIs and no unnecessary dependencies
• One consistent architecture across components, applied the same way everywhere
• Race-clean test suites, with integration tests run against real infrastructure in Docker
• CI on GitHub Actions: pinned action versions, separate unit and integration jobs, race detector enforced

Primary: Go Infrastructure: PostgreSQL · Redis · RabbitMQ · S3 · gRPC · Fiber · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions

• Website — suncake.xyz
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