**Staff Software Engineer | 14 years building tech startups

I'm a polyglot comfortable across the stack. I've built many diverse projects in my ~14 year career. I spent the last 8 years taking a Silicon Valley startup from early stage to acquisition, team building, mentoring younger engineers, and building better developer tooling. I wrote and maintained deployment code for infrastructure across AWS, hundreds of edge servers, and air-gapped on-premise deployments. I designed and coded distributed test runners with isolated container environments for running untrusted customer code. I also built custom distributed build and deployment servers, monitoring dashboards, Unity games - one of which is published on Steam and one of which won in the 2021 Houdini Game Jam, and so much more.

Developer Tools That Ship

• Debtmap - Multi-signal code analyzer that predicts bug hotspots by combining cognitive complexity, pattern recognition, coverage gaps, and git history. Uses information-theory entropy analysis, data flow, and pattern detection (pure mappings, framework patterns, state machines) to reduce false positives. Answers "what should I test or refactor first?"
• Stillwater - Rust library for pragmatic effect composition and validation. Zero-cost abstractions following the "pure core, imperative shell" pattern. Accumulates all validation errors instead of short-circuiting, provides testable dependency injection, and makes I/O boundaries explicit.

Infrastructure at Scale

• Built distributed test runners for untrusted code execution (containerized isolation)
• Designed CI/CD systems handling hundreds of edge servers + air-gapped deployments
• Created monitoring and deployment infrastructure that survived an acquisition

Core Skills: Rust • Python • AWS • Distributed Systems • Team Building • Technical Leadership

• 🚀 Shipping analysis and UX improvements for Debtmap
• 🔬 Researching: Functional programming and Rust
• ✍️ Writing about code analysis, Rust, and functional programming patterns

I'm open to Staff/Senior Staff roles where:

• Technical depth matters (systems, infrastructure, developer tools)
• Building 0→1 is more common than maintaining legacy
• I can mentor engineers and influence architecture
• Bonus: Early-stage startups, deep tech, or technical co-founder opportunities

Let's talk: iepathos@gmail.com | LinkedIn

I'm particularly interested in companies working on developer productivity, infrastructure tooling, or practical AI applications. If you're building something that makes engineers' lives measurably better, I want to hear about it.