A backend engineer who's been building distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines for about 8 years. Most of my work ends up serving a lot of users, which means the interesting problems are usually about scale, reliability, and keeping things simple under pressure.
Co-Founder & Technical Lead at buidly · gabrielmatei.com
Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript · Node.js · NestJS · React · Next.js · Python · Solidity
APIs & Architecture: REST · GraphQL · gRPC · Event-Driven · Microservices · Distributed Systems
Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Elasticsearch · TimescaleDB · Redis · RabbitMQ
Infra & Observability: Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · DigitalOcean · GitHub Actions · Prometheus · Grafana
🤖 lythra - A scripting language built around LLM integration as a first-class feature. Determinism controls, typed LLM outputs, and a clean pipeline model for building AI-powered programs.
🎛️ Hardware Bloom Filter (VHDL) - A simple personal experiment to learn how a Bloom filter translates into hardware using VHDL.
🧹 nodejs-sweep - Terminal UI for macOS that scans your filesystem for orphaned node_modules directories and lets you delete them interactively. Built with Ink and TypeScript.
🧪 llm-playground - A TypeScript/Node lab for building and testing practical LLM patterns — structured outputs, streaming, tool calling, RAG pipelines — using Gemini models, without heavy frameworks.
🎯 SnapData @ ETHSofia 2024 - Distributed on-demand data retrieval system with multi-source aggregation. Fetches external data only when requested to minimize redundant executions and maintain real-time accuracy.