faiz@arch:~$whoami
Faiz Authar.
Backend engineer writing Go for a living. Former ROM cook on xda-developers. I still miss the smell of a freshly built boot.img.
open to contract work jakarta, id utc+7 currently: distributed systems
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A brief ./init
I spend most of my day making Go services talk to Postgres, Kafka and each other without falling over. APIs, queues, event-driven stuff, the occasional panic() at 2am.
Before Go paid the bills I was nineteen and compiling kernels for a Lenovo Zuk Z2 in my bedroom. That's where I learned what a stack trace really means — when the only feedback is a black screen and the smell of a soft-bricked phone.
This site is a small, hand-rolled thing. No tracker. View the source, I'll buy you a coffee if you find anything bloated.
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Day-to-day stack
// lang
→ Go
→ SQL
→ Bash
→ a little Rust
// infra
→ Postgres
→ Redis
→ Kafka
→ Docker
// cloud
→ AWS
→ GCP
→ Cloudflare
→ Hetzner
// tools
→ Neovim
→ tmux
→ lazygit
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Selected work & moments
2025
Shipped a 200k req/min inventory sync service in Go. Zero downtime migration off a PHP monolith.
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2024
Ran the reliability squad at $dayjob. Cut p99 from 1.8s → 240ms.
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2018
First open-source kernel PR merged upstream (Mi4i / ferrari).
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2016
LineageOS 14.1 for Samsung Galaxy Fame, featured on xda-developers.
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2015
Graduated. Bought a $120 Zuk Z2. Bricked it twice in the first week.
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