I'm a metal singer with 10+ years of software/cloud engineering experience.
Currently living in Northern Europe and working at GitHub (you are looking at it).
"I like to define myself as a jack of most (tech) trades, master of some."
- Freelance services offered:
- on Kubernetes (not really for startups, you don't need that)
- Platform Engineering (again, not really for startups)
- Helping you hire the right engineers
- product market fit & go to market (mainly for startups)
- Open Source strategy
- Open source on Kubernetes upstream, in the Release Engineering team - find me as mbianchidev on the k8s Slack
- I just like maintainance and doing the work, no (low) politics
- Mentoring engineers via Mentorcruise and other channels
- a very selected few mentees at for a period of time (2, maximum 3)
- no 100% beginners
- no leeching (if you are ready there's no point in me to keep mentoring you)
- no bullshit
- a month for free if you recently got laid off
I also work on a number of different software projects, some for fun, some to free myself from paying lots of SaaS, some for future profit, mostly open source:
- 🔮 ats-review - A tool to track your applications that optimizes resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems
- 🦾 se-claw - Open Claw (sorta) for Solutions Engineers, for day-to-day pre/post-Sales work, but without all the CVEs open-claw has.
- 📦 sendbox - An all-in-one sandbox for Copilot CLI and agents, written in Swift, integrated with devcontainers and based on Apple Virtualization (kata-containers ftw)
- 🎸 devoidofbeauty.com - My (latest) band's website, we will publish our debut EP sometime in 2026
- 💰 Fire Tools - Your personal finance copilot without AI, but also a portfolio tracking tool, completely self-hosted, privacy first
- 🗃️ SQL Not So Lite - Lightweight SQLite-as-a-service daemon with gRPC API and web GUI
- 🎵 Track2Stem - Separate any track into multiple stems, with AI (the cool kind tho, it's Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation)
- 🎤 Find-concerts.io - A concert discovery service that doesn't suck like Songkick and others
- 🎶 Every Music - A music-based social media experiment
- 🔊 AnyTrack Converter - Convert any audio file or YouTube video to any format, with metadata editing
- 📋 Open Playlist - The foundation for an open standard for music playlists, no vendor lock-in
- 📝 LaTeX Editor - A free, open source LaTeX editor with real-time preview
- ✅ Eisen Todo - An Eisenhower matrix todo app for productivity, stop guessing wtf to do with your time
- 📄 PDFTools - A simple set of PDF manipulation tools, no third-party uploads needed
- 🧑💻 Engineering Interviews - Practice platform for System Design and Engineering interviews
- 🗺️ Platform Engineering Roadmap - An opinionated roadmap to becoming a Platform Engineer
- 🎮 2DnD - A 2D game based on D&D, duh
- 😂 Mock Startup Website - A satiric website mocking the average YC startup
- ☸️ KLab CLI - A CLI to manage Kubernetes clusters consistently across clouds and tenants
- 💵 Financial Cool - A curated list of financial resources, projects and products
- 🕹️ Blockster 2D - A 2D game developed during the Global Game Jam hackathon in Milan
- ☁️ Cloud Native Days - Cloud Native Days event resources
- 📜 Platform Engineering Manifesto - The Agile Manifesto, but for Platform Engineering
Details
| Method | Details |
|---|---|
| 🔐 Secure Messages | public GPG key to message me about sensitive matters |
⚠️ If you need to report any OSS security vulnerability use the project security.md file and follow the instructions, thanks!
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TLDR; I really like to build stuff in the cloud, especially if they pay me big bucks for it.