Type whoami into a shell and it answers in one line: lezli01. The honest version takes longer.

I am László Szabó, and I start at the metal. C++ was my first language and it is the one I keep coming back to — not nostalgia, appetite. I want memory layout to be a decision I make, not one a runtime makes for me. Down here the abstractions stop apologizing for the hardware, and that is exactly where I like to work.

// from one binary, the view widens.

From that floor I build outward. I design big cloud architectures and then stand them up for real — on Kubernetes and AWS — and I write the infrastructure that keeps them upright once actual traffic shows up. DevOps is not a chore I tolerate; it is the part I love. The deploy path wired so shipping is boring on purpose. The observability that names a dying node before a user does. Infrastructure is where architecture proves itself or quietly comes apart, and it pays off in the dullest currency there is: systems that just keep running.

// the README is a hypothesis. the strace is the truth.

I also cannot leave a new tool alone. A runtime, a build system, an orchestrator I have not run before — I pull it apart to watch how it actually behaves, not how the README claims. Most of it I throw back. The few that survive earn a permanent slot, and I keep them.

And I genuinely love Dart and Flutter. When a UI has to reach people fast, that is what I reach for, gladly: one codebase, compiled to native, shipped this week.

WHAT I AM NOT

I am not a frontend developer, and I have no interest in CSS, HTML, or the framework of the season. None. The browser simply is not where I live. That is not a gap I am working to close — it is just not the work that holds me.

The proof was never the demo. It is the quiet week after.

Working, useful software. The rest is noise.

The full version — the projects, the work history — lives at lezli01.is-a.dev. I would rather leave a gap than pad one.