Aleem Isiaka
Senior Engineer, Cloud & Distributed Systems · Lagos, Nigeria
I remove the magic from systems — showing how cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI tooling actually work from the inside.
Nearly ten years across backend, infrastructure, and SRE. Currently building payment infrastructure at Kredete, co-organizing GopherCon Africa, and contributing to Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Jaeger through the CNCF.
Log
Full log →What I'm building and learning, newest first.
Rebuilt limistah.dev to the new design: one Writing archive, one Library, a Now/Uses split, and this log.
TIL: Hugo’s Related content index needs includeNewer: true or a post never relates to anything published after it.
Community & speaking
The largest Go event in Africa — programming, CFP review, and community building across the continent.
Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Jaeger. Focused on making observability tooling easier to run in production.
Open platform and blog helping engineers adopt smarter operational practices.
Writing
All 68 pieces →Now
More →Working on
Payment infrastructure at Kredete — onramps across gateways and stablecoins.
Learning
C/C++ and Rust; deeper into AWS and GCP internals this year.
Reading
Site Reliability Engineering, Modern Operating Systems, The C Programming Language.
Building
Heimdal, Mustache-zig, and Markview — one project a quarter.
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