About

Backend engineer, infrastructure enthusiast, and occasional photographer. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

I am a backend engineer working on distributed systems and infrastructure. I have spent the last decade building services that process millions of events per hour, mostly in Go and occasionally in Python. I care about reliability, simplicity, and the kind of code that does not wake you up at night.

I grew up in Jämtland, in the middle of Sweden, surrounded by forest and mountains. That landscape taught me patience and attention to detail — qualities that transfer surprisingly well to debugging race conditions. I moved to Gothenburg for university and stayed for the coffee and the sea.

Professionally, I work remotely for a US-based company, leading a team that builds ingestion and aggregation pipelines. Previously I worked at a fintech startup in Stockholm and a telecom infrastructure company in Oslo. I have seen systems fail in almost every way imaginable, and I have learned that the best systems are the ones that fail predictably.

This Site

This blog is built with a custom static site generator — about 300 lines of Python — and served by Caddy. There is no JavaScript, no analytics, no cookies, and no third-party resources. The HTML and CSS are hand-written. Hosting is on a small VPS in Stockholm.

I write about Go, distributed systems, databases, and the practical aspects of running software in production. I do not write tutorials for beginners. I write for people who have already broken something in production and want to understand why.

Open Source

I maintain a few small tools and libraries, mostly related to testing and infrastructure:

  • determgo — Deterministic simulation framework for Go distributed systems
  • litestream-go — Go bindings for Litestream replication
  • caddy-trace — Caddy module for request tracing

Source is available on my self-hosted Git instance. Contact me for access.

Contact

The best way to reach me is email. I read everything, though I do not always reply quickly.

Email: hello@korvanti.com

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Time zone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

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