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I build distributed things, then break them until they last.
Hi, I'm Nihil, a platform and SRE engineer. I build cloud-native and cloud-agnostic environments, designed for scale and security first. By night: open-source tools for the same headaches.
Qafas Sandbox
A cage for your LLM coding agent. Commands run in a sandbox on your own hardware, with a timeline of every process, file and network call.
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Featured projectTopiq Explorer
A desktop app for exploring Apache Kafka clusters without squinting at CLI output. Electron + React + TypeScript, Apache-2.0.
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Featured projectllm-router
One self-hosted endpoint for the OpenAI and Anthropic protocols. Routes to Azure, Vertex AI, OpenRouter, vLLM and more, with keys, budgets, teams and SSO.
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Home Assistant on the NAS: a local-first smart homeOne container, no cloud account, and a firewall that only lets it talk one way. How Home Assistant fits into my network and where it goes next.Read →Building a 4K media server on a UGREEN DXP4800 ProJellyfin, the *arr stack, a VPN for torrents only and real HTTPS on the LAN. What I built, why, and everything that broke.Read →psst —Want to talk Kubernetes, Kafka or eBPF at your meetup?Ping me on LinkedIn ↗