ALESSIODAM.DEVPROJECTSWRITINGv.4 · 2026BE · UTC+1 AVAILABLE Q3
ID — 001 / BACKEND ENGINEER / BELGIUM
ALESSIO
D'AMBROSIO.
NOW
Building a quadruped& running too many kubernetes nodes from my bedroom.
YRS EXP0+
AGE0
I build the things that have to stay up.SCROLL ↓
§01 — ABOUT
IDENTITY.JSON

17, from Belgium. Four years writing software, mostly the parts you don't see — scalable backends, infra at scale, and the occasional robot.

I'm Alessio — a full-stack developer who'd much rather be writing the backend, and a robotics obsessive who'd much rather be in the workshop. The last four years have been a mix of scalable services, DevOps, system administration, embedded hardware and slowly teaching myself AI. I run my own homelab, I'm building an autonomous quadruped, and I contribute to open source where the tooling is missing.

LOCATION
Belgium / UTC+1
FOCUS
Backend · Infra · Robotics
LEARNING
AI / ML, control theory
EDITOR
Neovim · Linux
AVAILABLE
Q3 2026 →
RESPONSE
≈ 24h weekdays
§02 — NOWSNAPSHOT · MAY 2026
BUILDING
Autonomous quadruped — sensor fusion + ROS2 stack.
RUNNING
A Proxmox + k8s homelab on HPE ProLiant gear.
LEARNING
AI/ML for real-time decision making on edge devices.
READING
Designing Data-Intensive Applications · Kleppmann.
§03 — SELECTED WORKALL PROJECTS / CHANGELOGS →
P.01Active R&D2025 — ongoing

Autonomous Robot Dog

Four-legged robot. Sensor fusion, ROS2, dynamic locomotion.

Building an autonomous quadruped that combines embedded hardware, ROS2 modules, and real-time control. Mathematical modeling, physics simulation, sensor fusion and path planning come together for dynamic locomotion and obstacle avoidance.

ROS2PythonEmbeddedControl TheorySensor FusionPath PlanningPhysics Sim
P.02Production-ish2023 — ongoing

Personal Homelab

Proxmox + Kubernetes playground on HPE ProLiant gear.

An infrastructure playground hosted on Proxmox running Kubernetes VMs — hands-on with containerization, networking, HA, monitoring and storage at home-rack scale. Continuously broken on purpose.

ProxmoxKubernetesDockerLinuxNetworkingHAHPE ProLiant
P.03Maintained · Open source2024

ST3215 Servo Library

Production-ready Python lib for ST3215 servo motors.

Built because no stable, working ST3215 library existed. Reliable, well-tested interfaces for servo control and feedback — used in robotics projects in the wild.

PythonOpen SourceEmbeddedServo Control
§04 — STACK21 TOOLS
01BACKEND
+Go
+Python
+Flask
+Django
+FastAPI
02DATABASES
+PostgreSQL
+MariaDB
+Redis
03INFRA / DEVOPS
+Kubernetes
+Docker
+Proxmox
+RabbitMQ
+CI/CD
04FRONTEND
+Next.js
+React
+TypeScript
05SECURITY
+AppSec
+InfraSec
06PLATFORM
+Linux
+Git
+SysAdmin
§05 — WRITINGALL POSTS →
0012026-04-28Why I switched my homelab from VMware to ProxmoxInfra8 min0022026-03-12Building a working ST3215 driver from scratchRobotics11 min0032026-01-30Kubernetes on a single ProLiant — and whyInfra6 min0042025-11-09Notes on learning AI as a backend devAI5 min0052025-08-22Postgres tuning I wish I'd known at 15DB7 min
§06 — CONTACT

LET'S
BUILD.

alessio@alessiodam.dev
GitHub@alessiodamLinkedInin/alessiodamEmailalessio@alessiodam.dev