Systems lab / Products & research

The systems I’m building.

Spillgate is the usage platform at the surface, and Brod is the event backbone beneath it—a useful product backed by serious thinking about metering, data movement, reliability, and scale.

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Live

Live product / Usage platform

Spillgate

Meter every event. Enforce every limit. Bill with confidence.

A developer-first platform for real-time usage metering, atomic quota enforcement, flexible pricing models, and accurate invoicing behind one REST API. Brod powers the event pipeline underneath it.

Event meteringReal-time quotasUsage billingMulti-tenant
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In development

Systems R&D / Distributed data

Brod

The event backbone behind Spillgate.

A replicated event log designed around parallel ingestion, selective replay, predictable failure recovery, and the realities of feeding analytical systems. It is being built, benchmarked, and failure-tested under sustained load.

Replicated logParallel ingestRecoveryGo
Architecting · benchmarking · breaking · refining

Other technical territory

The questions around the flagship work.

These areas stay intentionally high-level: enough to show the scale and shape of the work without publishing proprietary implementations.

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Applied intelligence

Context-aware software

Tools that turn fragmented notes, incoming signals, schedules, and relationships into durable, useful personal context.

Knowledge systemsSearchAI synthesisAutomation
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Open source / Performance architecture

Clustopher

An open-source system exploring hybrid memory and columnar-storage strategies that keep spatial aggregation interactive across billion-scale point sets.

Spatial indexingClickHouseAggregationPerformance
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Product systems

Graph-shaped workflows

Using connected data to expose dependencies, relationships, and risk that disappear inside conventional flat lists.

Neo4jGraph modelsProject intelligenceSystems UX
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Infrastructure

Small-team cloud platforms

Lean, reproducible Kubernetes environments with GitOps delivery, secure secrets, resilient data, and controlled cost.

KubernetesTerraformArgoCDOperations
Open source

Open source, where it makes sense.

Clustopher makes the larger performance work inspectable; my public dotfiles share the smaller tools, environment choices, and setup automation that are useful to publish directly.

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