Blog - Infrastructure, Observability & Distributed Systems

Tech Lead at Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (Elli), building backend systems for 900,000+ EV charging stations.

I write about infrastructure, service mesh, observability, and the dirty work of making distributed systems actually work in production.

Side projects: matgen.ai (battery materials research), lamp.matgen.ai (AI patent analysis), cheatmeal (full-stack Rust PWA).

Go, TypeScript, Rust. 15 years shipping code. AWS Solutions Architect Professional.

Configure SAM pipelines with Terraform

Configure defaults for IAM and S3 for SAM deployments.

Practical e2e testing. Create 3 microservices and communicate to each other with practical ideas for e2e testing.

The recipe: Create a template for Go lambda functions running on Graviton processors.

The recipe: migrate the existing blog to AWS.

Cleanup GitHub resources after PR merged.

Configure continuous deployments for a SAM application on GitHub.

AWS lambda for chemical data extraction.

Deploying Python Lambda using SAM and Github actions, covering CI/CD ideas for Terraform.

Create infrastructure with Amazon CDK.

Send an SMS on a regular basis.