Operational surface / 01

Designing infrastructure that scales, and defenses that hold.

Backend infrastructure, distributed systems design, and API reverse-engineering for data acquisition.

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Core disciplines

Where the work concentrates

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Infrastructure

Designing for scale and uptime — capacity planning, cache behavior, operational visibility, and predictable failure modes.

ScalingCachingReliability
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Bot Detection & Evasion

Building detection systems — fingerprinting, behavioral signals, challenge design — and the techniques that defeat them. Understanding both sides of the adversarial loop.

FingerprintingBehavioral signalsChallenge design
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Data Acquisition

Reverse-engineering APIs for data extraction — traffic inspection, auth/session replication, and resilient client behavior under adversarial constraints. No browser automation.

API analysisAuth/sessionPublic data
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JS Reverse Engineering

Deobfuscating and analyzing JavaScript VMs, control-flow obfuscation, and anti-tamper protections to understand how client-side logic actually works.

DeobfuscationJS VMsAnti-tamper

Project index

Selected systems

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Video CDN

Tiered storage hierarchy (HDD → NVMe → edge) for video delivery, tuned for cache locality and origin protection.

CDNCachingEdge routing
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CDN DRM

WASM-based playback protection with embedded client fingerprinting — obfuscating key handling from tampering while detecting anomalous, restream-pattern client behavior.

WASMStreamingFingerprinting
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Public Data Acquisition

Large-scale retrieval of public data, including circumventing automated verification layers designed to block programmatic access.

Data pipelinesVerification automationLarge-scale retrieval
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Distributed Infrastructure

Containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes and Docker, deployed through CI/CD pipelines.

KubernetesDockerCI/CD

Philosophies

How the work gets done

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    Systems designed to minimize attack surface, not just to function

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    Client-side logic built assuming it will be read

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    Defenses designed by first understanding how systems break

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    Architecture designed for simplicity over cleverness

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    Infrastructure designed to survive failure, not avoid it