Hi!

I’m Guy. I work in cloud infrastructure and backend engineering, and I care about both more than is probably necessary.

What drives most of what I do is wanting to understand not just whether things work, but why they break under pressure and whether the default was ever really thought through. That means reading source code when the docs run dry and pushing back on things that exist out of habit. When something catches my interest, I go fairly deep on it rather than picking up a surface-level impression and moving on. I hold opinions and update them when something earns it.

That same instinct extends outside work. My space, my hardware, the things I rely on every day all get attention proportional to how much I depend on them. The more something is mine, the more deliberate I am about it. That tends to produce things other people end up relying on, which is its own kind of confirmation.

On the fiction side I like things with actual depth: long-running series with internal logic you can dig into and argue about, mystery and psychological drama where the craft holds up, superhero shows and comics with real continuity, and comedy that’s sharp rather than just loud. The theory and debate around that kind of fiction are part of the appeal, and those communities have been a big part of my life for a long time. Something unserious and well-executed has its place too.

Most of the games I’ve put serious time into are multiplayer with a build or progression system: tactical shooters, MOBAs, looter-shooters, co-op. Real opponents and teammates make things unpredictable in a way scripted content can’t match, and there’s always something worth optimising.

The music is mostly rock and metal but stretches into progressive and experimental on one end and alt-pop and epic orchestral on the other, with lofi somewhere in the background for long work sessions. It doesn’t fit neatly into anything, and I’ve stopped trying to make it. When I travel, I go for places with real history, architecture worth looking at, food worth paying attention to, and infrastructure that actually works.