Kelvin Amoaba
software engineer
system design • cloud • networking • backend • databases
golang • compilers
writings
Jun 9, 2025: Obscurity is your biggest enemy
Mar 16, 2025: Monotonic and Wall Clock Time
Feb 11, 2025: Escape Analysis
Jun 15, 2024: What does it mean to build a simple SMTP server?
Jan 7, 2024: Paying Attention to Details As a Developer
Dec 30, 2023: 2023 in Review
Dec 24, 2023: What is Big O Notation?
Nov 18, 2023: A 5-Step Approach to Problem Solving (DSA)
Jul 18, 2022: Creating a Custom Authentication Backend in Django
projects
iShortn:A URL shortening service with a built-in analytics dashboard. It tracks link clicks, geographic data, and user behavior in real-time. Currently has over 7000 users and more than a million link clicks.
is-temp.com:A temporary email service powered by a custom SMTP server built in Golang. It provides disposable email addresses and supports attachments and custom domains.
formbase.dev:A backend service for HTML forms. It lets users collect form submissions and file uploads just by pointing their HTML form to the service endpoint, no backend code required.
directt.to:An open-source alternative to Google Dynamic Links — create powerful, trackable, and customizable short links.
logtide:A beautiful, clean Docker logs viewer. Easily browse system logs, container output, and more—all in one unified interface.
zihni:AI-powered analyst agents for VCs. Built autonomous LLM-based agents to automate early-stage tasks like pitch deck analysis, market research, and investment memo generation—drastically reducing due diligence time.
bazaar:A full-stack self-healing web scraper that leverages AI to automate complex web scraping workflows—over 10 million records collected, with a 90% reduction in manual data collection.
docker reverse proxy:A custom Docker reverse proxy built from scratch to understand how tools like Traefik and NGINX work under the hood. Focused on dynamic service discovery and routing.
meta-scout:A simple API that extracts website metadata—including Open Graph images, descriptions, and titles—for quick content previews and link enrichment.
OpenStatus:Active contributor to OpenStatus. 🏓 The open-source monitoring platform with incident management 🏓