Blueprint No. 001 Rev. 04 · Astro

Software Architect · Tel Aviv

Systems that stay
boring under load.

I help engineering leaders make the architecture decisions that keep distributed systems reliable—and 2am quiet.

Most diagrams stop at the happy path. I work on the contracts that keep the real system operable when traffic climbs or a dependency goes away.

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Architecture reviews and platform advisory for distributed systems.

Fig. 01 / Behavior under load

Same system, two designs. Flip the switch and watch what changes—and who gets paged.

Good design Bad design
Requests / sec
24,000
p99 latency
11ms
Errors
0.00%
On-call
quiet
p99 ms flat is the feature

System online. Awake, and entirely unbothered.

Plate 02 · The system, drawn

The drawing I keep coming back to.

live · sampled every 10s
Reference architecture for a resilient distributed system Traffic passes through an edge gateway and work queue to three workers and a primary database. Replicas, a dead letter queue, and retrying webhooks isolate failures. CLIENT EDGE12k rps · TLS AUTHp99 8ms · JWT RATE LIMITtoken bucket WORK QUEUE3 partitions WORKER · 1healthy WORKER · 2healthy WORKER · 3healthy PRIMARYRPO 0 · RTO 30s REPLICAasync REPLICAasync DLQdepth 0 OUTBOUND WEBHOOKbackoff engaged EXTERNAL3rd party drawn for: architecture review · not to scale

The boxes are not the work—the lines between them are. What fails first is rarely the service; it is the contract between them: the timeout, retry policy, and ordering guarantee. One service is in backoff. The system stays boring. That is the entire job.

Experience · Selected roles

From real-time security to edge platforms.

Open a role for the brief.

  1. 2014–2018 Cynet Security
    Cynet Security2014–2018

    Senior Software Developer

    • Built a real-time threat-detection pipeline processing millions of events a day.
    • Designed the backend that scaled from startup to enterprise customers.
    C#.NETSQL ServerReal-time
  2. 2018–2021 Conductor
    Conductor2018–2021

    Lead Engineer

    • Owned the core platform architecture—the system other teams built on.
    • Drove the migration from a monolith to event-driven services.
    • Mentored a growing engineering team on system design.
    Node.jsTypeScriptPostgresEvent-driven
  3. 2021–2023 Fullstack.fm
    Fullstack.fm2021–2023

    Founder & CTO

    • Designed and shipped a developer-tooling platform from zero.
    • Built the stack on serverless edge infrastructure.
    • Owned product, architecture, and engineering end to end.
    Cloudflare WorkersD1R2KV
  4. 2023–2026 Recent work
    Recent work2023–2026

    Tech Lead Architect

    • Architected AI-powered platforms scaling globally on edge infrastructure.
    • Led small, high-velocity teams through hard platform decisions.
    • Turned ambiguous product needs into systems that stayed operable.
    ArchitectureAIEdgeLeadership

Field notes

Writing is in the workshop.

Drafts on distributed systems, developer tools, and architecture decisions are being sharpened. Nothing public yet.

Best to talk before it is an incident.