# zot24 > 24 years as a software engineer, including 10 years building cloud platforms and scalable infrastructure. Entrepreneur and seed investor, currently based in Paraguay after years of traveling globally. Site: https://zot24.com Contact: hi@zot24.com ## Now - **Currently shipping:** shipping nworth 0.4 - **Next:** zskills 0.8 release - Updated: 2026-05-17 ## Projects ### zskills — Package manager for agentic coding CLIs Declarative install, sync, and reconciliation of Claude Code plugins, Agent Skills, and MCP servers across user/project/local scopes via one skills.toml manifest. Treats settings.json and installed_plugins.json as state — the manifest as intent. Written in Rust. **Stack:** Rust, CLI, Claude Code, MCP, Agent Skills **URL:** https://zskills.zot24.com **Source:** https://github.com/zot24/zskills **Status:** active ### nworth — Self-hosted portfolio tracker, agent-first Track your net worth across stocks, crypto, cash, stables, and physical assets — with intelligent allocation targets, a powerful Action Center, and tooling designed so both humans and AI agents can safely manage your money. Three small Rust binaries sharing one SQLite file. No cloud, no auth, no Node build step. **Stack:** Rust, Axum, SQLite, Agents, Self-hosted **URL:** https://zot24.github.io/nworth **Source:** https://github.com/zot24/nworth **Status:** active ## Experience ### Strategic Advisor & Seed Investor — Smartloop (Apr 2023 - Present) *San Francisco Bay Area* - Seed investor providing critical funding and strategic expertise during early growth stages - Guiding transition from legal services to AI-driven document analysis platform - Driving Web3 integration including decentralized storage and tokenomics - Advising on business strategy, contract negotiations, and fundraising initiatives **Technologies:** AI, Web3, Business Strategy, Tokenomics ### Senior Cloud Engineer — BlackRock (Feb 2023 - Jan 2025) *San Francisco Bay Area* - Designed Chaos Engineering scenarios with LitmusChaos, increasing test coverage by 30% - Enhanced observability with new monitoring cases and optimized dashboards - Revamped CI pipelines with simplified workflows and new templates - Migrated legacy Terraform code with remote backends, eliminating race conditions **Technologies:** LitmusChaos, Terraform, CI/CD, Observability, Kubernetes ### Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Anaplan (Nov 2019 - Jan 2022) *San Francisco Bay Area* - Led team delivering high-availability AWS environments, reducing provisioning time by 25% - Coordinated production releases across multiple teams and enterprise clients - Optimized GCP infrastructure (GKE), increasing platform user retention by 23% - Built automated infrastructure testing with Terratest/Go, achieving 70% coverage - Contributed features to community Terraform providers **Technologies:** AWS, EKS, Terraform, GCP, GKE, Go, Terratest ### Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Entelo (Nov 2018 - Oct 2019) *San Francisco Bay Area* - Built high-availability monitoring for all Kubernetes clusters (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki) - Created custom Prometheus exporter in Go, reducing AWS bills by 45% - Containerized applications and improved delivery pipelines, cutting release times by 35% - Implemented service mesh with Kubernetes, Istio, and Spinnaker **Technologies:** Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Go, Istio, Spinnaker ### Infrastructure Engineer — Moltin (Nov 2016 - Sep 2018) *Newcastle upon Tyne, UK* - Sole infrastructure engineer architecting customer-facing systems on AWS and Azure - Built highly available infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Docker - Implemented service mesh using Rancher/Cattle and Linkerd - Established CI/CD (Jenkins), monitoring (Datadog), and logging (ELK Stack) platforms **Technologies:** Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Docker, Rancher, Linkerd, Jenkins ### Platform Engineer — Moltin (Sep 2015 - Nov 2016) *Newcastle upon Tyne, UK* - Built and maintained product through monolith-to-microservices evolution - Worked across full stack: PHP, Laravel, Go, Node.js, Nginx - Managed data layer with Scylla, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL **Technologies:** PHP, Laravel, Go, Node.js, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch ### Software Engineer — Contactzilla (Sep 2014 - Aug 2015) *Bristol, UK* - Main engineer for SaaS contact management platform - Fixed customer issues while refactoring legacy Zend Framework codebase - Architected new distributed system using Laravel and Symfony **Technologies:** PHP, Zend Framework, Laravel, Symfony, MySQL ### Software Developer — Shiptheory (Jun 2013 - Jun 2014) *Bristol, UK* - Integrated carrier APIs: DHL, myHermes, Parcelforce - Built payment platform integrations: PayPal, Authorize.net - Developed robust APIs enabling automated shipping workflows **Technologies:** PHP, MySQL, Python, Flask, REST APIs ## Writing ### Hello World *2025-12-12* · general, intro Welcome to my new blog space where I'll share thoughts on engineering, leadership, entrepreneurship, sovereignty, tech and traveling. # Hello World Welcome to my personal blog. This is where I'll be sharing my journey in software engineering, leadership insights, and maybe some random thoughts about technology, entrepreneurship, sovereignty and travel. Or the other way around. ## Why a blog? I've always believed that writing is the best way to clarify your thinking. As I navigate through different challenges in my life, I want to document them not just for others, but for my future self. Stay tuned for more! --- ## Open to talk about - Cloud platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes - Building agentic CLI tools (Rust) - Paraguay residency and geo-arbitrage - Business structure for remote engineers - Personal finance & long-term optionality ## Contact - Email: hi@zot24.com - X: https://twitter.com/zot24 - GitHub: https://github.com/zot24 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zot24/