About

I'm Kristof Kowalski, a Staff Engineer who has spent the last decade building platform tooling for product teams. I work at the layer where observability, deployment, and developer experience meet.

Before that, I was a backend engineer at three startups in a row, all of which I joined at around the twenty-engineer mark. The pattern taught me a lot about what good infrastructure looks like when it has to scale to support people, not just services.

I write about the work on the blog and build small tools on the side. Most of them are Go CLIs, which is the highest praise I can give to any tool.

You don't actually want to write a service. You want to write a tool that you can ship from a single binary and never look at again.

A friend, after I shipped the second Go CLI of the year