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excoriate/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹, I'm Alex

🧠 Who am I?

I'm a tech engineer based in the Netherlands πŸ‡³πŸ‡±, with extensive experience in Staff and Principal engineering roles.
A Stoic apprentice, lifelong learner, and book addict β€” intrigued by consciousness/mind, and seeking knowledge.
Ah... Sometimes, I write code πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’».

βš’οΈ What do I do?

  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Staff/Principal Platform Engineer by day β€” magician & philosopher by night πŸŒ™
  • πŸš€ CTO at IdeaUP
  • πŸ€– AI Engineer & indie hacker obsessed with intelligent systems
  • 🧠 Currently focused on: AI agents, DevEx, and building MCP Servers
  • πŸ’¬ Available for freelance work, consulting, or OSS in: Kubernetes, AWS, AI, Iac, MCP, DevEx, and full-stack development (MVPs, NextJS)

πŸ› οΈ What am I good at?

  • Engineering leadership (Staff/Principal roles)
  • Systems design & architecture
  • Developer Experience (DevEx)
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi
  • Cloud infrastructure: AWS, GCP, k8s, Serverless
  • Languages: .go, .rs, .tf, .hcl, Python, JavaScript
  • CI/CD & automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Dagger.io
  • Obsessed with clean code, radical simplicity and developer experience

❀️ I love Open Source

I'm passionate about OSS and always tinkering with ideas and tools that empower engineers.
Check out some of my recent projects:

🌍 Where to find me

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  1. terraform-registry-module-template terraform-registry-module-template Public template

    A comprehensive template repository for Terraform modules with best practices and GitHub workflow integrations.

    Just 3

  2. golang-cli-boilerplate golang-cli-boilerplate Public template

    Golang CLI Boilerplate is a bulletproof Golang CLI template with batteries included πŸ”‹

    Go 4

  3. tftest tftest Public

    A collection of commonly use functions for terratest πŸ§ͺ & terraform πŸ—οΈ

    Go 5 2

  4. terragrunt-ref-arch-v3 terragrunt-ref-arch-v3 Public template

    Modular Infrastructure as Code Reference Architecture with Terragrunt and Terraform

    HCL 3

  5. mcp-terragrunt-docs mcp-terragrunt-docs Public

    Deno/TypeScript MCP Server providing context related to Terragrunt documentation.

    TypeScript 12

  6. mcp-terraform-aws-provider-docs mcp-terraform-aws-provider-docs Public

    Deno/TypeScript MCP Server providing context related to the AWS provider for Terragrunt documentation.

    TypeScript 1