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Hey! 👋 I'm Carlos — Platform Engineer with 25+ years in infra.
These days: multi-cloud AWS/GCP, Snowflake, IaC with OpenTofu, and HIPAA/SOC2 in healthcare. I write about what actually works in production. No toy projects.
Glad to be here!
Hey Carlos! Glad you are here and hope you are well! What inspired you to start Platform Engineering?
Because OnlyFans wasn’t available at the time. Just kidding. I think it was the logical next step for me, coming from the on-premises world of servers and networking.
lmao threw me off there not gonna lie. Thanks for sharing btw :D
Hey Carlos!
Hi Carlos. That's some impressive experience, nice to have you around!
Hello Carlos nice to meet you !
Hi! Welcome to the platform!
25+? GGWP 👋
Hey Carlos, fellow infra vet here (20 years)! Love the 'no toy projects' attitude. I'm working on the data infrastructure for AI agents right now. Looking forward to your posts!
Hello @carlosmoradev 👋
Hey Carlos! nice to meet you man!
Hey Carlos, I have been making researchs about healthcare systems. nice field
Hey Carlos!
Hi Carlos, great to meet a fellow no-toy-projects builder 👋!
this is a pro
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Welcome everyone!
Hello all i'm siyadh 👋🏼---I build developer tools focused on cybersecurity, automation, and recon.
Right now i'm working on tools to streamline asset discovery, subdomain enumeration, and intelligence gathering into a single workflow. The goal is simple: reduce manual recon effort and make high-signal data easier to extract.
I'll be sharing what i build, what breaks, and what i learn along the way.
Always open to contribute with people working in security, dev tools, or anything in that space.
Hey Siyadh! Welcome to dev! Great work so far and can't wait to see what you share to the community!
What's your favorite part about cybersecurity in your opinion? It is quite an interesting field.
Hey hey siyadh!
Hi Siyadh 👋. Looking forward to your posts
Hello! Welcome to
dev.to!Hey Community 👋
I’m Katharina, a software developer, mainly C#, Clean Architecture, DDD. But to be honest, I always end up somewhere else.
Last stop: Python, graph theory and swarm intelligence.
Before that: hackathons with Wolfram Language, GeoPandas and Streamlit.
Next stop: unclear. Probably something I don’t know about yet.
On GitHub, I go by the name lady-logic.
Looking forward to the community here! 🐇
Hi Katharina. Welcome to the community ! 😊
Made any games using C#? Any lessons that helped you win hackathons?
Have a great time here.🫡
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to almost everyone here as much as you could. I am almost burnt out from doing this lol
Thanks Konark! I appreciate it really! Making Richard proud :)
Don't burnout Francis. You are a part of the community that is there to help you. I like replying to the comments. This community has always been so caring, supportive and so giving to me. I found amazing people like you.
I can't return the favor but would love to help in some way or the other. That's why I welcome everyone to this amazing community.
Don't feel burnout buddy. We are here. You can comment first and then leave the rest to me or other people sometimes. For me, it's super fun to interact with new people some are ceo, pm, 10+ years, 15+ years of experience and many more so asking them and talking to them feels amazing. Yes, making Richard proud. I can't replace him but would love to be like him and share and encourage everyone.😊
Welcome to Dev @ladylogic! Hope you are well and GL on your journey :D
Welcome to DEV @ladylogic!!
I'm Alok - I build developer tools and I'm here mostly to cross-post the writing I already publish on my own site. My current project is ClipGate, a terminal-native clipboard vault for developers that auto-classifies every copy (secrets, code, URLs, errors, diffs, JSON, shell commands…) and keeps everything in an encrypted local SQLite database with no cloud or telemetry. It also ships an MCP server so Claude Code, Cursor, and friends can query your clipboard history without leaking secrets to the model.Topics I enjoy writing about: developer productivity, security hygiene, Rust CLI ergonomics, and the surprisingly deep rabbit hole that is "what happens when you copy something." Excited to learn from this community and trade notes with folks building in the same space.Happy to connect!
Hi! Interesting… Nice to see you here!
Hey Alok! Welcome to Dev! How long have you worked on ClipGate? Quite interesting and great work! Hope your journey goes well :D
Hello! I'd be happy to read a post about productivity! Nice to have you here! :)
Hey! I'm Dan,
Solo founder building developer APIs in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Currently shipping Rendex — a screenshot, PDF, and HTML rendering API that runs on Cloudflare Workers.
Excited to start writing tutorials here about browser rendering, Python automation, and building API products as a solo dev.
Happy to connect with anyone working on developer tools or building in public. 🤙
Hey Dan! Welcome to Dev!
Hi everyone, i'm a 3 years computer technician and recently forming myself on python to continue building my ideas of open-source project that I want to build to help others
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Hey Dev.to 👋
I'm Liam, a software engineer with about five years of experience — full-stack to start, then a couple years leading an engineering team at AWS.
These days I'm studying physics at university while building a self-hosted AI assistant.
It started as a tab-switching fix and went somewhere deeper — persistent memory across sessions, a self-tuning feedback loop that scores its own responses over time, each conversation isolated in its own container.
Still going.
Looking forward to sharing things as I build them 😄
Very impressive Liam! Welcome to Dev! What did you work on in AWS in particular?
Hey Francis, appreciate it!
Regarding AWS - We worked on a product called "Resilience Hub", it's designed to provide cloud-infrastructure modification recommendations based on the client's specific resiliency goals (The concept of "resilience" in cloud infrastructure is focusing on cases where AWS servers are down for some reason, in different scales - Software, Hardware, Availability Zones, Regions).
Goals could be either "How long am I ok with AWS's servers down, until I act", and "How much 'data-time' I'm okay with losing, if at all".
That's the tip-of-the-iceberg summary 😅
Hi Liam. Welcome to the community ! 😊
Name three laws of motion😂. Any theory you read or studied that you fallen in love with?
All the best for your project. Have a great time here.🫡
Thanks!
Three laws of motion as of Newton's? because there are a lot more than that 😜
Personally - Special Relativity is my favorite, at least as of now 😃
Yes there could. I just touched physics got confused with so many theories and symbols.
Cool Special Relativity. Do you believe in Blackhole or a 4th Dimension?
100%.
There are already actual, real pictures by Webb-James telescope of a blackhole, which is kinda crazy.
I highly recommend watching Interstellar if you didn't see it yet, one crazy movie.
Silly of me. Now that you have mentioned I remember seeing the blackhole images myself. I have seen the movie. That's why I asked do you believe in the physics that movie gave. A 4th dimension far away from time and space.
Well, you know, it's still a movie so it has its imaginary parts.
For example, you'll probably die way before you reach the black hole's horizon, so the physics in the movie could not possibly be real.
BUT - still a great movie IMO 😄
Hi! Is security frustrating for you? It doesn't need to be.
My name is Milo and I'm a security guy, mostly focused on application security. My experience ranges from penetration testing, through security engineering up to security architecture where I'm now.
The red line connecting these dots was always staying near to the developers. Security is important, but so is shipping features and I strive to remove the usual needless friction.
In the spare time I tinker with python and self-hosting. I might have an addiction to Advent of Code (325 stars and counting) and Factorio in the off-season.
I'll be sharing my experiments, thoughts and headaches. Please let me know if you have some burning questions, I'm happy to chat!
Hey Milo, it's great to meet you. The red line staying near to developers is the thing I keep coming back to as well. The practitioners I've seen actually move the needle are almost always the ones who made that same choice early.
In your experience, where does the needless friction end and the necessary friction begin? Because I think that line is where most AppSec programmes quietly fall apart. The tool flags something real, it's genuinely important, and it still doesn't compete with the feature work in the sprint. Is that a communication problem in your experience or something more structural?
Thanks for the comment!
In my experience, it's about situational understanding and sadly this links to the boring parts like risk management. Knowing what kind of issues the company can afford and if this is really the time to push for speed.
I liked the sports car analogy to shipping code. Devs are the engine. Security is like brakes. Yes, we need to introduce friction at the right time to move as fast as possible. And yes, it takes a skilled driver to recognise the moment to press the pedal.
Love the sports car analogy you used and i get it, it's not about how much friction but when right but I'd push slightly on the driver framing: in most orgs I've seen, the driver is usually engineering leadership not the security team, which means the brakes only matter if the person at the wheel knows they exist and trusts them. How do you handle the situational understanding piece when the person making the call doesn't have visibility into what security is actually seeing?
Hey Miloslav! Welcome to DEV! What's your favorite part on doing application security and how long have you been in this field?
Honestly, the variety of it. Between code, users, bots, CI/CD, business requirements and hacking. Since there's always something to do, I'm happy I can pick what interests me. I got 9 years and counting.
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