Software engineer
I'm Yusuf, a software engineer working on data platforms and observability. I like pipelines, storage, and signals that stay honest when the volume climbs and the on-call chat gets loud. This site is where I keep notes, selected work, and the odd visual experiment.
Raw events are cheap. Reliable tables are not. I spend most of my attention on how data moves, lands, and stays queryable: enrichment, retention, and shapes operators can actually use.
Dashboards are the easy part. The work is collection, aggregation, and alerting that shorten time-to-diagnosis without drowning everyone in cardinality and noise.
Go, Postgres, queues, and small services with clear boundaries. I prefer boring failure modes and status you can trust at 3am over clever abstractions that only make sense on a whiteboard.
Selected work →Now: Charon (durable delivery in Go) and Quake Anything (a GNOME Shell extension) are public; notes are next.