Now

At work

I left Privy in July 2026 after six years as a Senior Backend Engineer, working on the identity and digital signature layer for Indonesia. I'm currently looking for what's next — ideally somewhere identity, trust, or scale is the actual product, not an afterthought. If that's what you're building, get in touch.

Learning

I've been working through Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications — not for the first time, but it reads differently after six years running the kind of systems he's describing. The chapters on replication and consistency land differently now. Alongside that, I've been picking up more Go. Not switching away from anything — just wanting to understand a second systems language deeply enough to know when it's the right tool.

Side work

This portfolio site (iamucil.me) — built with Nuxt 3, Nuxt Content v3, and deployed on Cloudflare Pages. It's been a useful excuse to stay hands-on with the frontend stack while I look for the next role. I also occasionally contribute to Go-related tooling on GitHub (github.com/iamucil) when something I'm using has a gap I can close.

Quarterly priorities

• Find the next role — identity, trust, or scale infrastructure
• Finish Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover to cover
• Contribute at least one meaningful PR to an OSS project I actually use