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I build distributed things, then break them until they last.
Hi, I'm Nihil, a platform and SRE engineer. I build cloud-native and cloud-agnostic environments, designed for scale and security first. By night: open-source tools for the same headaches.
Qafas Sandbox
A cage for your LLM coding agent. Commands run in a sandbox on your own hardware, with a timeline of every process, file and network call.
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Featured projectTopiq Explorer
A desktop app for exploring Apache Kafka clusters without squinting at CLI output. Electron + React + TypeScript, Apache-2.0.
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Featured projectllm-router
One self-hosted endpoint for the OpenAI and Anthropic protocols. Routes to Azure, Vertex AI, OpenRouter, vLLM and more, with keys, budgets, teams and SSO.
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GitOps with Argo CD at scale: the layout, the roles and when not to use itTwo repos, one ApplicationSet per service and clear owners for every layer. How to build it, how it grows from three clusters to thirty, how it fails, and who it is not for.Read →Home Assistant on the NAS: a local-first smart homeOne container, no cloud account, and a firewall that only lets it talk one way. How Home Assistant fits into my network and where it goes next.Read →psst —Want to talk Kubernetes, Kafka or eBPF at your meetup?Ping me on LinkedIn ↗