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Distributed systems
Designing replicated event pipelines, recovery paths, and high-throughput services where correctness is part of the architecture.
GoEvent streamsReliability
Building at FlowState Technology Solutions
I build systems that turn complexity into momentum.
I’m Thomas Cabral—an engineer and lifelong technologist working from product interface to distributed infrastructure. I turn opaque, underperforming systems into observable foundations that teams can build on.
systems_lab / topology live
CoreSystems
thinking
thinking
DATAClickHouse · SQL
PLATFORMK8s · GitOps
SERVICESGo · Streams
PRODUCTTS · Svelte
12+
years building
PB SCALE
data architecture
UI→INFRA
full lifecycle
Distributed systemsSystem performanceProduct engineeringCloud infrastructure
What I bring
Wide technical range. Sharp product focus.
I work across the layers that make technology useful—from architecture and implementation to operations and technical direction.
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Data at scale
Building analytical systems that stay interactive across enormous datasets by putting the right work in the right layer.
ClickHousePostgreSQLReal-time analytics
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Platform engineering
Owning what happens after the build: declarative infrastructure, GitOps delivery, observability, and pragmatic cloud operations.
KubernetesTerraformArgoCD
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Product engineering
Connecting deep backend work to interfaces people can actually understand, trust, and use—from zero to production.
TypeScriptSvelteKitSystems UX
What I’m building
Products above the surface. Systems underneath.
Spillgate is the usage platform at the surface. Brod is the event backbone powering its pipeline—useful product infrastructure above, serious data and reliability work underneath.
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Live productUsage infrastructure
Spillgate
A developer-first platform for metering every event, enforcing customer quotas in real time, and turning consumption into transparent usage billing—powered by Brod underneath.
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Systems R&DDistributed systems
Brod
The event backbone powering Spillgate: a high-throughput replicated log built around parallel ingestion, selective replay, predictable recovery, and analytical workloads.
Researching & building
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Product systemsApplied intelligence
Context-aware tools
Investigating how notes, signals, schedules, relationships, and bounded AI synthesis can become durable working context.
Researching & building
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Open sourceOpen source / Spatial data
Clustopher
An open-source exploration of interactive spatial aggregation across billion-scale point sets, combining in-memory speed with columnar scale.
View on GitHubFrom the field
Engineering, without the theater.
Notes on architecture, language design, AI tooling, and the judgment it takes to build software that lasts.
Essay / 017 min
Garbage In, Garbage Out — But Faster
There's a version of this story where AI coding tools are the great equalizer — where anyone with a good idea can build production software regardless of experience. That story is being told constantly right now, and it's mostly wrong. The uncomfortable truth is that these tools are amplifiers. They take what you already know and make you faster a…
Essay / 026 min
Go Is the Best Language for Web Services — And Here's the Nuance
I have written production code in Kotlin, Typescript/Javascript, Java, Scala, Python, Go, C# and more. I have built metering systems in C# and Go and am constantly reminded of why I always pick up Go every time when given the choice. After years of working across these ecosystems, I keep coming back to the same conclusion: Go is the best language …
Essay / 032 min
Prompt Engineering isn't Engineering
A recent conversation with a colleague highlighted a fundamental disconnect in how we discuss and market artificial intelligence capabilities. When exploring how large language models (LLMs) actually function, they expressed frustration with the gap between marketing promises and technical reality—drawing a pointed comparison to Tesla's self-drivin…
Experience.log
Built over time.
FlowState Technology Solutions
Product & systems engineering
Moody’s / RMS
Platform architecture & distributed systems
AutoLoop
Software & product engineering
Technical range
Comfortable across the stack.
Not a wall of badges—a working toolkit chosen according to the shape of the problem.
Languages
GoC#TypeScriptPython
Data
ClickHousePostgreSQLRedisNeo4j
Platform
AWSKafkaKubernetesDocker
Interfaces
ReactVueNext.jsSvelteKit
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I’m always interested in ambitious products, sharp technical challenges, and meeting people who care about the craft.
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