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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Add copy buttons to all
 blocks\n(function() {\n function addCopyButtons() {\n document.querySelectorAll('pre code').forEach(function(codeBlock) {\n if (codeBlock.parentElement.hasAttribute('data-copy-added')) return;\n codeBlock.parentElement.setAttribute('data-copy-added', 'true');\n \n var btn = document.createElement('button');\n btn.textContent = 'Copy';\n btn.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;top:4px;right:4px;padding:2px 8px;font-size:11px;background:#4ecdc4;border:none;border-radius:4px;color:#1a1a2e;cursor:pointer;opacity:0.7;transition:opacity 0.2s;';\n btn.onmouseover = function() { this.style.opacity = '1'; };\n btn.onmouseout = function() { this.style.opacity = '0.7'; };\n btn.onclick = function() {\n navigator.clipboard.writeText(codeBlock.textContent).then(function() {\n btn.textContent = 'Copied!';\n setTimeout(function() { btn.textContent = 'Copy'; }, 1500);\n });\n };\n codeBlock.parentElement.style.position = 'relative';\n codeBlock.parentElement.appendChild(btn);\n });\n }\n \n addCopyButtons();\n \n // Re-run on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(addCopyButtons);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "github.com";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + "github\\.com" + '
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Sy-D/README.md

Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


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Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

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For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Force GitHub README to respect dark mode\n(function() {\n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '\n .markdown-body {\n color-scheme: dark light;\n }\n .markdown-body pre { background: #161b22 !important; }\n .markdown-body code { background: rgba(110, 118, 129, 0.4) !important; }\n .markdown-body table th, .markdown-body table td { border-color: #30363d !important; }\n .markdown-body img { background: #0d1117; }\n .markdown-body blockquote { border-left-color: #8b949e; }\n .markdown-body hr { border-color: #30363d; }\n ';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n})();", "GitHub Dark Mode README Fix"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:GitHub Dark Mode README Fix]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


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Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

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For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Highlight search terms from Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing referrer\n(function() {\n var ref = document.referrer;\n var terms = [];\n \n if (ref.includes('google.com') || ref.includes('duckduckgo.com') || ref.includes('bing.com')) {\n var url = new URL(ref);\n var q = url.searchParams.get('q') || url.searchParams.get('p');\n if (q) {\n terms = q.split(/\\s+/).filter(function(t) { return t.length > 2; });\n }\n }\n \n if (terms.length === 0) return;\n \n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '.userscript-highlight { background: #fbbf24; color: #1a1a2e; padding: 1px 3px; border-radius: 2px; }';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n \n function highlight(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 3) { // text node\n var text = node.textContent;\n var found = false;\n terms.forEach(function(term) {\n var regex = new RegExp('(' + term.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\\]\\\\]/g, '\\\\') + ')', 'gi');\n if (regex.test(text)) {\n found = true;\n var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();\n var parts = text.split(regex);\n parts.forEach(function(part, i) {\n if (i % 2 === 0) {\n frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(part));\n } else {\n var span = document.createElement('span');\n span.className = 'userscript-highlight';\n span.textContent = part;\n frag.appendChild(span);\n }\n });\n node.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, node);\n }\n });\n } else if (node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) { // element\n var skipTags = ['SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'NOSCRIPT', 'TEXTAREA', 'INPUT', 'SELECT'];\n if (!skipTags.includes(node.tagName)) {\n Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(highlight);\n }\n }\n }\n \n highlight(document.body);\n \n // Re-highlight on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 3) highlight(node);\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Highlight Search Terms"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Highlight Search Terms]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


🧰 Working with

Infrastructure

TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCoolify

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerized workloads and pragmatic deployment platforms.

AI systems

AI AgentsModel RoutingEvaluations

Agent pipelines, model routing, evaluation harnesses and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

Product engineering

TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSPostgreSQLDrizzle

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Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

Most of my client work lives in private repositories.

For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "youtube.com"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


🧰 Working with

Infrastructure

TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCoolify

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerized workloads and pragmatic deployment platforms.

AI systems

AI AgentsModel RoutingEvaluations

Agent pipelines, model routing, evaluation harnesses and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

Product engineering

TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSPostgreSQLDrizzle

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Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

Most of my client work lives in private repositories.

For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


🧰 Working with

Infrastructure

TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCoolify

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerized workloads and pragmatic deployment platforms.

AI systems

AI AgentsModel RoutingEvaluations

Agent pipelines, model routing, evaluation harnesses and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

Product engineering

TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSPostgreSQLDrizzle

Craft

Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

Most of my client work lives in private repositories.

For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

➡️ Read all posts


🧰 Working with

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TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCoolify

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerized workloads and pragmatic deployment platforms.

AI systems

AI AgentsModel RoutingEvaluations

Agent pipelines, model routing, evaluation harnesses and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

Product engineering

TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSPostgreSQLDrizzle

Craft

Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

Most of my client work lives in private repositories.

For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

    Python 5 1

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); } })(); })();
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Hey, I'm Simon 👋

DevOps & AI engineer based in Berlin.
I build reliable infrastructure, useful products and occasionally typefaces.

WebsiteBerlinDevOps and AI

I love building things, solving problems and fixing them through technology.

Today, I work mainly across DevOps, infrastructure and AI systems. Before that, I worked in full-stack and mobile development—which is why I still care about what a button feels like, where the baseline sits and whether a page shifts while loading.


🔤 Zutat Sans

A contemporary sans-serif for interfaces, brands and editorial typography.

Four weights, Latin character support, manually drawn and hinted, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

npm versionGitHub starsOFL 1.1 license

npm install zutat-font

View the specimen · Browse the source


✍️ Writing

Notes from the intersection of infrastructure, AI, product engineering and things going unexpectedly wrong.

An analysis of 24,560 pull requests across 447 repositories.

AI-authored pull requests fail CI 19.4% more often—but only below 55 changed lines. Above that threshold, the gap closes, which is the opposite of what many people assume.

One main.tf file with 1,847 lines. No modules. No remote state.

A breakdown of what these patterns cost and how to untangle them without rewriting everything from scratch.

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🧰 Working with

Infrastructure

TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCoolify

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerized workloads and pragmatic deployment platforms.

AI systems

AI AgentsModel RoutingEvaluations

Agent pipelines, model routing, evaluation harnesses and the infrastructure required to operate them reliably.

Product engineering

TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSPostgreSQLDrizzle

Craft

Typography · layout · motion · accessibility · performance budgets


🤝 Let's work together

Most of my client work lives in private repositories.

For project inquiries, technical conversations or examples of previous work, visit simondoba.com.

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    Zutat Sans - a contemporary OFL typeface for interfaces, brands, and editorial typography.

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