From "How does this work?" to building the systems that do.
Infrastructure engineer working mostly in SaaS. I spend my days on the stuff nobody sees until it breaks — CI/CD, platforms, observability, the usual. I write about what I learn at blog.taylan.dev.
"Is this how it works?" — I ask this a lot.
- ⚙️ Infrastructure that doesn't page you at 3am. Boring is good.
- 🚀 Developer velocity. If shipping is painful, people stop shipping.
- 🔬 Observability. You can't fix what you can't see.
- homelab — Kubernetes on bare metal, managed with Flux and Renovate. Where I test ideas before they go anywhere near production.
- shepherd — Rust daemon that watches for Renovate image bumps via GitHub webhooks, pulls the updated compose file at the exact commit SHA, and restarts only what changed.
- kansou — Go CLI + REST server for scoring anime/manga through AniList. Weighted, genre-aware, completely overengineered for a hobby. No regrets.
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