about
Builder, engineer,
human being.
I'm Kenneth. I've been writing code professionally for over three decades, and most of that time has been spent at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure — the part of the stack where things stop being "just code" and start being "systems."
These days I work as a DevOps & platform engineer. I build internal developer platforms, design CI/CD pipelines that don't make people cry, write Terraform that ages gracefully, and increasingly — wire LLMs into the workflows that used to require six tabs and a runbook.
On the side I build products and tools. StructKit is my longest-running project: a CLI-first scaffolding tool that started as a weekend experiment and turned into something I rely on every day. I also tinker with MCP servers, agent stacks, and small SaaS ideas I publish at tradestickers.app and a few other domains.
I write essays here because writing is how I think. If a topic shows up on this site, it's usually because I had to figure it out the hard way and don't want you to.
Beyond the terminal
I'm not just the engineer-shaped projection of myself, even if my GitHub graph suggests otherwise.
Dad of two
The most important system I maintain.
Drummer
Alt-rock, mostly. I play loud and badly, and I love it.
Punta del Este 🇺🇾
Coast, mate, and a slower internet than I'd like.
Lifelong tinkerer
Curious about everything I don't yet understand.
What I believe
- Automation is empathy at scale. Every script that removes a manual step gives someone an hour back.
- The best platforms are products. Treat your developers like users, or they'll route around you.
- Tools shape thought. Pick yours deliberately.
- Learning in public compounds. Even the small posts.
- AI is a collaborator, not a replacement — and the humans who learn to work with it well will build wildly disproportionate things.
- Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure.