What I’m up to now

Here is what I’m up to now, as of January 2025. This page was inspired by the now page movement.

Location

I’m in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, just outside of London.

Work

I’m at  working on iCloud backend services. I write code (sometimes Swift, sometimes Java, sometimes C++), wrangle distributed systems, and do a lot of infrastructure work (both bare metal and on Kubernetes) using Pkl as much as I can.

Interests

I run a mini homelab to try things out and to self-host a few services. I like my infrastructure to be defined as code and my dashboard to show a lot of green.

Our house is solar powered so I am following weather forecasts way more closely than before and I am learning a lot about energy markets and the transition to renewables. I even automatedi configuring our inveter to take advantage of smart tariffs.

I am exploring electronics. My main project is building sensors to collect data (CO2 level, temperature, humidity) and publish it to a dashboard. I am enjoying writing my firmware using embedded Rust and optimising my builds for long battery life.

We now have a piano at home, so I guess I am trying to learn how to play it.