Alex Carter

Backend & Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Building resilient backend services, distributed systems, and low-level Linux utilities. Focused on performance optimization, kernel tuning, and automated deployment pipelines.

Current Focus & Projects

sysmon-rs 2026 — Active

A lightweight system metrics collector written in Rust using eBPF probes for minimal overhead.

Rust eBPF Linux
dist-kv 2025

Experimental distributed key-value store implementing Raft consensus for educational purposes.

Go Raft gRPC

Technical Notes & Articles

Optimizing TCP Congestion Control on Modern Linux Kernels Oct 2026

Benchmark comparisons between BBRv3, Cubic, and customized socket buffer allocations.

Zero-Downtime Migration with Caddy and Systemd Sockets Aug 2026

Notes on orchestrating transparent restarts for critical edge services without dropping active connections.

Infrastructure & Security

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