I'm a metal(core) singer with 12+ years of experience in tech.
Currently living in Northern Europe and working at GitHub (you are looking at it).
During over a decade in the tech space I've been hopping in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering (lots of k8s), Developer Relations, Field Marketing, Sales/Revenue Engineering, co-founding a startup and freelancing which is basically me being a one-man company.
Have you seen Everything Everywhere All at Once? I am pretty much the tech version of that.
- I offer freelance services:
- Kubernetes assessment, optimization and strategy (not really for startups, you typically don't need that until you hit elastic usage growth, with unpredictable peaks)
- Platform Engineering (again, usually not for startups until they hit product market fit and need to scale their infra (teams))
- Helping you hire the right engineers for the job (for every software company)
- Fractionally helping you get shit (and software) done until you hire the right engineers for the job
- Product Market Fit & Go To Market (this is mainly for startups and scaleups or enterprises with innovative product lines on top of their current business)
- Open Source strategy (for every company, regardless of their domain)
- Mentor engineers via Mentorcruise and other channels
- a very selected few mentees at a time (usually 2, maximum 3)
- no 100% beginners
- no leeching (if you are ready for interviewing, acquired the knowledge you wanted or you reached your goal, there's no point in me to keep mentoring you)
- no bullshit
- a month for free if you recently got laid off subject to (my) availability, first come first served
I also work on a number of different software projects, some for keeping myself technical (Kubernetes?) some for fun, some to free myself from paying lots of subscriptions, some for (hopefully) future profit so I can retire early.
If a project has no link it's closed source for the time being.
I tend to default to open source, MIT License, but sometimes I don't.
- ๐ฆ moguri - A harness for your AI that works on your terms, both in a CLI (TUI) format and a desktop app, forked from OpenCode
- ๐ Stainless - A chromium-based productivity and dev oriented web browser: native adblock, sandboxed, clean search (goodbye sponsored/recommended content) and local/self hosted AI (optional).
- โ๏ธ VSLocal - the local-first AI IDE alternative that requires no account, API key, or cloud service. A VSCode fork, powered by open weight models. See vslocal-test for initial PoC (WIP).
- ๐ฆ sendbox - An all-in-one sandbox for agents, integrated with devcontainers based on kata-containers
- ๐ข porto - Your self-hosted apps orchestrator
- ๐๏ธ SQL not-so-lite - Lightweight SQLite-as-a-service daemon with gRPC API and web GUI
- ๐ killswitch - A low footprint resource manager and utility for your MacOS
- โ๏ธ NixArc - NixOS meets Arch Linux. A prototype OS, to explore the possibility of having a declarative system manifest inspired by NixOS within Arch, it also finally solves audio driver issues in Linux.
- ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ธ Studio Duo - A brand new DAW because Studio One has been acquired by Fender and it now kinda sucks
- ๐ค yt2karaoke - The must have for all good parties, convert youtube videos into karaoke experiences (powered by track2stem)
- โ๏ธ Scream Forge - A (paid) VST for metal singers, includes a chain with: a compressor, EQ, pitch up/down, exciter, echo/reverb, de-esser and more
- ๐ต Track2Stem - Separate any track into multiple stems, with the cool kind of AI (Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation)
- ๐ AnyTrack Converter - Convert any audio file or YouTube video to any format, with metadata editing
- ๐ Open Playlist - The foundation for an open standard for music playlists, no vendor lock-in
- ๐ง Open Playlist Engine - The first implementation on top of the open playlist idea, mainly helping users migrating off Spotify to various targets
- ๐ค find-concerts.io - A concert discovery service that doesn't absolutely suck like Songkick or Bandsintown - probably will be focused on metal and most -core subgenres, sorry Taylor Swift fans but you probably don't need this as much as we do
- ๐ถ Every Music - A music-based social media experiment, giga WIP but an interesting concept I would love to explore (maybe bulding it leveraging ATProtocol and call it MusicSky?)
- ๐ธ devoidofbeauty.com - My (latest) band's website, our debut EP has been published 1st Aug 2026 on Bandcamp, listen to it here
- ๐ฐ Fire Tools - Your personal finance copilot without AI, but also a portfolio tracking tool, completely self-hosted, privacy first
- ๐ฆ Fiscal Fox - A self hosted accounting software: invoicing, contracts, quotations, expenses/receipts, time and trip tracking... Ideal for freelancers and small businesses
- ๐ DeNote - Complete markdown-first editor with minimal built-in plugins
- ๐ LaTeX Editor - A free, open source LaTeX editor with real-time preview, basically OverLeaf but self hosted and free without any limits
- ๐ผ๏ธ ImgTools - A free, open source image manipulation tool, to compress, convert, crop and resize images
- ๐ PDFTools - A simple set of PDF manipulation tools, no third-party uploads needed
- โ Eisen Todo - An Eisenhower matrix todo app for productivity, stop guessing wtf to do with your time
- ๐ฎ Go, get a job! - A tool to track your applications that optimizes resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems and... it does more too
- ๐งโ๐ป Engineering Interviews - Practice platform for System Design and Engineering interviews
- ๐บ๏ธ Platform Engineering Roadmap - An opinionated roadmap to becoming a Platform Engineer
- โ๏ธ Cloud Native Days - Cloud Native Days event resources, it is probably not relevant. Archived.
- ๐ Platform Engineering Manifesto - The Agile Manifesto, but for Platform Engineering, it might still be relevant. Archived.
- ๐ฎ 2DnD - A 2D game based on D&D, duh
- ๐น๏ธ Blockster 2D - A 2D game developed during the Global Game Jam hackathon in Milan, fun to play, might de-archive it in the future but unlikely. Archived.
- ๐ mbianchi.dev - Just my website
Orgs I own include:
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- fire-tools-inc - for the FIRE Tools project
- synctune-io - for anything music related that doesn't fit my profile
- mbianchiutils - for any little utility project that doesn't belong in my profile
- mbianchicareers - for anything career related, most of these are private, some are public. All will be public when I retire.
- mbianchidemos - for code demos, talks and anything regarding my DevRel side, aside from this one org which required to be standalone for a KubeCon talk in 2026.
- mbianchigaming - for anything regarding videogames
Open source orgs I am part of are typically shown in my profile.
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โ ๏ธ If you need to report any OSS security vulnerability use the project security.md file and follow the instructions, thanks!
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TLDR; I really like to build and run stuff in the cloud, especially if they pay me big bucks for it.My stack for doing that is the following: - Favorite orchestrator: Kubernetes, duh. BUT. I'm not a fan of using it when it's not needed, so container managed services like ECS or even serverless can be totally fine too. - Cloud provider tier list: 1. God tier - Google Cloud Platform 2. Good but expensive tier - AWS 3. Why would I ever tier - Azure (and I work for MSFT at the time of writing this lol) 4. Every other cloud provider is not even in the tier list, unless you are a teeny tiny company starting out, or a hobbyst. In that case OVH, Hetzner or any other VPS / Cloud works. Just never Oracle or IBM please. I beg you to reconsider. - I obviously prefer docker compose setups for local development environments, and I tend to containerize the services I build: it's easier to later move to microservices (or a keep a monorepo) - For frontend I usually go for React + Vite, I also didn't mind NextJS for a while but after all the CVEs and with the rise of AI I felt less of a frontend framework need. - For backend I try to be mindful. I'm comfortable with Golang and Python mainly for the backend, I don't mind Node.js with Express. I used a lot of Java with Spring Boot back in the days but I'm a bit Rust-y now. I use Rust over C/C++ whenever I need performance, but adjacent to eBPF or kernel the choice is not as obvious. I like wrapping things with GraphQL when possible, mainly for lightening up egress costs for client-heavy loads. RESTful all the way for most CRUD apps, but also gRPC when performance matters. - For databases I adore SQLite when I work locally and Postgres for production environments, especially run on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG. - For cache I tend to prefer Valkey over Redis for licensing and historical reasons. - For event-driven I usually do rabbitmq or Kafka and I've worked with and built custom systems (ask me about puma PMA) - For S3-compatible storage I prefer SeaweedFS over any other alternative. - For mobile Flutter or React Native, never really dove deep into Swift or Kotlin (Android). - For desktop I have a heavy preference for Electron, but I am experimenting with Tauri (multi-platform)