Hi, I am Raffael.
Engineer and builder. Automation-first. Building at the intersection of systems, security, and AI.
Writing about platform automation, edge infrastructure, applied security, and AI-assisted engineering. Languages and models are tools. They serve humans, not the other way around.
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Edge Systems Are the New Backend
Auth, policy, and business logic are migrating to the edge. The traditional backend is becoming a persistence layer.
How AI Makes Bare Metal Viable Again
I migrated from Kubernetes to a single Hetzner box. The missing piece was not the hardware.
The Last Programming Language Might Not Be for Humans
Three futures for the intermediate layer between human intent and machine execution.
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Projects
Zentinel
Security-first reverse proxy built on Pingora. Memory-safe, explicit configuration, isolated agent architecture.
Archipelag.io
Decentralized AI compute platform. Run workloads on community-operated GPU hosts. Fast, fair, and local.
Cyanea
Open community for life science research. Share datasets, protocols, and experiments with version control and citation tracking.
Arcanist.shSpeaking
RSAC 2026
Self-Learning WAF: Using Generative AI to Tame ModSecurity False Positives
How generative AI can classify WAF false positives, a practical pipeline for automated rule generation, and lessons from production.
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