Hi, I'm Max.

I like computers, what's underneath them, and the math that holds it together.

By day I build and run backend systems as a software and DevOps engineer. Cloud infrastructure, distributed services, the parts that have to keep working at 3am. Mostly Go, TypeScript, and Python. I care about simple designs more than clever ones, and clean code you can navigate over the kind where every function is four lines.

What I find most interesting sits one layer below all of that. How an operating system actually schedules processes. What a virtual machine really is. Why a CPU has privilege rings. How a network stack composes from bytes up to a TCP connection. And the math holding all of it together.

This blog is where I write about those things. Call it the Feynman test: if I can't explain something simply, I haven't understood it yet. Writing is how I check.

Before software, I studied geosciences, then trained as a physiotherapist, then went back to school for information systems. None of it was planned, but the through-line is the same: I like understanding how complicated systems actually work, whether earth, bodies, or computers.