limistah.dev

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.

What I'm building and learning, newest first.

Sep 4

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

GopherCon Africa Co-organizer

The largest Go event in Africa — programming, CFP review, and community building across the continent.

CNCF Contributor

Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Jaeger. Focused on making observability tooling easier to run in production.

ObjectSpread Founder

Open platform and blog helping engineers adopt smarter operational practices.

Software Engineering Lives On!

#swe #ai #career · 11 min

Mar 2026
Here and Now, There and Then

essay · 6 min

Dec 2025
Define what you want

essay · 9 min

Sep 2025
Rust - Hello World

#rust · 2 min

Sep 2025

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.

From blogs I follow

via openring

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