Why I'm Building a Distributed Systems Portfolio in Public

August 17, 2026

Proprietary code taught me a lot. It didn’t leave me much to show. # I’ve worked with large distributed systems in my career but they have always been proprietary. When someone asks “can I see something you’ve built?”, the honest answer has been “not really”. So I’m fixing it by building in public. What I’m building # The first repo is StreamShop a fictional e-commerce platform designed as a local-first distributed systems showcase. ...