My Journey Through the One Billion Row Challenge in Go
What is the One Billion Row Challenge?
I build systems that don't apologise for existing.
Lead Technology Consultant focusing on Go, Rust, and distributed systems. Design systems for performance and technical clarity.
Recent Writing
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Advanced Concurrency Testing in Go 1.24: Exploring testing/synctest
Go 1.24 introduces the new testing/synctest package, an experimental feature designed to improve testing for concurrent code. This package…
Cryptographic Enhancements in Go 1.24: Post-Quantum Readiness & More
Go 1.24 introduces significant improvements to its cryptographic capabilities, including support for post-quantum cryptography, new hashing…
Selected Projects
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urfave/cli
A declarative, simple, fast, and fun package for building command line tools in Go
GoOpen source
1,323 stars
amazon-archives/aws-lambda-container-image-converter
The AWS Lambda container image converter tool (img2lambda) repackages container images (such as Docker images) into AWS Lambda function deployment packages and Lambda layers.
GoOpen source
4,861 stars
yajra/laravel-datatables
jQuery DataTables API for Laravel
PHPOpen source
Experience
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Technogise
AI-assisted delivery and deep tooling integrations; analytics, internal tools, and workflows; self-serve reporting for finance. Reliability, security, CI/CD, and cluster operations; edge services and mentoring; polyglot work in regulated gaming.
Technology Consultant
Technogise
Raised architecture and delivery velocity; shipped annual identity re-verification aligned with engineering standards.
Director of Software Engineering
engineering.com
Self-service white-label instances; improved web and API performance; hybrid-to-native apps; on-demand environments for dev and QA.
Principal Software Engineer
engineering.com
Monolith-to-microservices migration; continued the native-app program.