Platform / Distributed Systems Engineer
Complex systems. Boring on purpose.
Hello, I'm Davidson! I build backend and platform systems that stay understandable when they fail. My work centers on explicit state, recovery, observability, and dependable production operations.
In development / control-plane design
Early design work for an ephemeral environment control plane.
Branchplane is still at the system-model stage. I am using it to work through control-plane failure modes around desired state, reconciliation, cleanup, and one-shot deployment workflows.
Production software and migration
Academic operations software for two campuses and more than 2,000 students and staff.
A production rewrite that preserved populated data, kept rollback possible, and separated permanent student identity from academic-session enrolment.
Realtime product engineering
A real-time queue product for waiting somewhere else.
Queue position is changing state, not a page to refresh. The system combines durable queue records with live updates, push notifications, reconnect-aware clients, and a server-fetch fallback.
Production engineering
Production systems have to survive contact with reality. My work spans backend systems, cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and the operations around them.
PostgreSQL CDC with Debezium and ClickHouse, plus asynchronous workflows over Azure Service Bus.
PR-scoped Azure infrastructure with Pulumi and CI/CD, backed by explicit lifecycle and recovery thinking.
OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and Tempo, alongside synthetic monitoring and security remediation.
Current direction
I am moving deeper into platform engineering and the infrastructure required by AI and agent systems, without treating reliability as somebody else's layer.