What I'm up to these days

Now

A snapshot of what I'm focused on at this point in my life — work, side projects, and what I'm learning. Inspired byDerek Sivers' /now page movement. It changes as life does.

Work focus

Where most of my hours go right now.

  • Building and maintaining backend services and data pipelines as an IT Developer at CIMB Niaga.

  • Deepening my Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure skills — orchestration, observability, and keeping things reliable.

Building & experimenting

Side projects and things I'm tinkering with after hours.

  • Iterating on this site — recently added tags, a uses page, reading time, and these Now and TIL sections.

  • Expanding my homelab: self-hosting more services and making the setup fully declarative with Terraform and Ansible.

  • Writing small tools in Go and Rust to scratch my own itches.

Learning

What I'm actively trying to get better at.

  • Going deeper on distributed systems and the trade-offs behind them.

  • Sharpening my Rust — moving past the borrow checker fights and into real projects.

Reading & watching

Off the keyboard.

  • A rotating stack of tech books, manga, and the occasional anime or film when I need to switch off.

Last updated July 2026.