I'm a software engineer based in Arvada, Colorado! I'm most experienced with TypeScript, but recently I've been enjoying Rust! I have some experience with C#, plenty with Go, and I want to learn Elixir and C++!

I have a strong background in developing with the Discord API and maintain bots for others and myself. My largest bot, Thoth, is a great English language tool for students and folks who want to search definitions and various types of speech for fun!

Often times, a random idea comes to me, or I want to learn a new technology, or I need a solution for a real-life problem and I just build it. My GitHub repositories page is a perfect timeline and archive of things I've wanted or needed to do. Here are a few of my funky projects:

• Wordle Stats - before Elon bought Twitter, this bot listened to all Tweets containing the word Wordle, parsed the player's score, then served public visualizations on Grafana. I build this to see how many other people shared their scores and to get back into writing Rust.
• AmbientWeather.net Data Collector - for Father's Day, I got my dad a weather station! It transmits data to AmbientWeather.net, and whenever it does, AW.net sends the updated data via a realtime API to this collector. The data is fed into ClickHouse and viewed realtime and in historical contexts. I built this because I wanted to know the exact temperature outside, with wind chill, before deciding to go in the hot tub.
• crates.pm - the official https://crates.io website has text-search, but its not instant. I built* crates.pm to index Crates and feed the data into Meilisearch to provide instant text search -- a service I wanted to learn more about.

I work at Truffle, a startup focused on filling the gaps left by Twitch and YouTube, improving live-streaming and content creation for both creators and their viewers.

Some of my projects at Truffle include:

• Upgrading Scylla to 6.0 and improving our backups system
• Scyllax, a Rust-based query framework (but also kinda? an ORM) for Scylla
• Hypha, a thin gRPC layer between our Scylla cluster and other services, standardizing our data access layer (utilizing Scyllax)
• Kubernetes cluster maintenance

I'm most active on Discord. If you ever want to get in contact with me, join my Discord server.

• Discord: @fykowo
• Twitter: @fykowo
• Email: [email protected]