About
I started my career fighting terrible documentation.
When I was working on integration projects around 2018, I found that connecting to local payment gateways was a deeply frustrating experience. The documentation was difficult to read, integration was harder than it needed to be, and developers were often treated as an afterthought rather than the primary users of the service.
I proposed a different approach: treat developers as users, build proper SDKs, and write documentation that actually helps someone get a working implementation running by the afternoon. I ended up building those tools and a community around the Paynow service. We watched integration numbers move from roughly 100 a month to more than 2,000.
That experience shaped how I work. I build software, tinker with hardware, and spend an unreasonable amount of time figuring out how things work, so that the person using the system doesn't have to.
Career
I work on KDP, focusing on Kubernetes, platform work, and product engineering. This role marks a deliberate move into deeper infrastructure work, building the developer-platform tooling that abstracts away the complexity of cluster management.
A focused period of ownership and delivery. I was responsible for product decisions and leading work across a broader surface, ensuring that technical choices aligned with actual business requirements.
Built and maintained software inside a real, physical operating business. When your code runs a dental practice, edge cases matter, and reliability is immediately visible to the people in the room.
The developer-experience story. I focused on the impact of SDKs, community building, and writing documentation that treated developers as first-class users.
Elsewhere
Away from work, I'm usually taking something apart, trying to read a signal that was never documented, watching anime, or finding another reason to buy an ESP32.
- Email: [email protected]
- GitHub: @iammerus
- X: @wezhirawevhu
- CV: PDF Download