Systems that have to work after someone ships them.
Build
Order orchestration, high-cardinality caches, robotics localization, and the operational habits that help teams respond to 2am alarms without falling apart.
A homebase for things I build and thoughts I keep returning to.
I’m David Lopez, a software engineer working on reliability, operations, and software that has to survive real use. This is where I keep production lessons, small digital explanations, reading notes, family experiments, and work I want to be accountable to.
Ideas I keep trying to explain.
Think
Books I return to, conversations I cannot stop thinking about, AI and career forks, business ideas, and notes on making things easier, clearer, or more fun.
The people and routines I am trying not to miss.
Kin
Beach trips, bike rides, grandma’s water slide, family movie nights, garage workouts, and the work of keeping home life light and fun.
Go next
Choose the useful door.
Work
For reliability, operations, system design, and teams that need calm when something breaks.
About my workProjects
Small tools, AI-assisted builds, and explanations that work better as software than as notes.
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Essays, reading notes, and working thoughts once there is something worth sharing.
Read postsContact
For thoughtful introductions, project conversations, reliability questions, or one real thing.