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Ebn Sina

Software Engineer

Building fast, durable systems — and the craft behind them.

I'm Ebn Sina. I design and ship product-grade software: distributed backends, snappy frontends, and the infrastructure that makes both possible. Currently focused on platform engineering.

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Intro

Engineer at the intersection of infrastructure and product.

I've spent the last several years shipping software that real people rely on — backend services, developer tools, and the occasional deeply unfashionable internal CLI. Right now I'm deep in video infrastructure: ingest pipelines, transcoding at scale, and the edge caching that gets frames to viewers fast.

I care about correctness, taste, and shipping. I write here mostly to think out loud — post-mortems, patterns that held up under load, and opinions I'd defend with diagrams.

What I do

Backend & distributed systems

Services built to survive real traffic — queues, durable execution, consensus, and the failure modes most teams only discover in production.

GoRustPostgresRedisNATS

Frontend & product

Interfaces that don't make people wait. Accessible, fast, and considered down to the empty and loading states.

TypeScriptSvelteReactWebGL

Platform & reliability

The unglamorous layer that keeps everything else sustainable — CI/CD, observability, infra-as-code, and SLOs that actually mean something.

KubernetesTerraformOpenTelemetrynginx

Selected work

Things I've shipped

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Acme Platform

Multi-tenant internal platform powering 40+ services. Designed the deploy pipeline, secret rotation, and the observability stack from scratch.

ds — a developer's swiss army CLI

Open-source CLI that wraps the 20 commands every backend engineer types daily. Written in Rust, distributed via Homebrew.

Sidebar Search

Realtime full-text search over 12M docs. Sub-50ms p99. Built on Tantivy with a custom ranking layer.

Writing

Recent notes

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CDN with OpenResty & Gcore

Every layer explained — from BGP routing to Lua hooks, cache headers to origin auth — and how to extend each one.

Hardening Your Node.js Supply Chain: A Practical Playbook

Migrating package managers, enabling supply-chain guards, and building a security baseline that survives real-world threats.

Full-Stack VPS Deployment: React, Node, Go, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Redpanda & More

A complete guide to deploying a production-ready full-stack application on a fresh VPS — covering server hardening, message streaming, object storage, search, email, task queues, and observability.

Currently

Now →
  • Building a video-infrastructure platform — ingest, transcoding pipelines, adaptive delivery, and the edge caching that ties it together.
  • Going deeper on distributed systems — specifically consensus and durable execution.
  • Working through Mastering SRE and re-reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
  • Tinkering with Rust on the side — embedded and WASM.

Toolkit

Uses →
Languages
GoRustTypeScriptPython
Data
PostgreSQLRedisNATSKafka
Infrastructure
KubernetesTerraformnginx / OpenRestyCloudflare
Observability
OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafana

Get in touch

Building something interesting? Let's talk.

Whether it's a hard distributed-systems problem, a platform that needs to scale, or just a second opinion — I'm generally up for it.

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