Hi, I'm Timur 👋
Forward Deployed Engineer · AI × Cloud. I build with LLMs, agents, and MCP servers on top of cloud infrastructure — sitting close to the problem, prototyping fast, hardening for production.
15+ years architecting cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Now putting most hands-on hours into AI tooling on top of cloud, with open source as the public surface area.
Background arc: DevOps Architect → Full Stack Developer → Cloud Architect → Head of IT / CTO → AI × Cloud / Forwa
My coding assistant forgets everything I told it the moment a session ends, and the ChatGPT tab next to it never knew any of it. Fixing that for myself costs about $52 a month on AWS in eu-west-1 for
Or: what happens when an engineer gets tired of explaining himself to his own tools.
A small confession, before anything else The thing that pushed me to build vibestack was not a strategy meeting. It was a Tuesday evening, and I was tired. I had spent maybe forty minutes in a Claude
If you manage AWS infrastructure with code, the European Sovereign Cloud adds a new partition to think about. Different endpoints, separate IAM, its own console. This guide covers what works out of th
Introduction You know what? I see teams spinning up Kubernetes clusters for three microservices all the time. Then they spend two months figuring out pods, ingress controllers, and all that magic. And then they pay $70 per month just for three cluste...
The container orchestration landscape on AWS recently received significant enhancements with two major updates to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): the introduction of ECS Managed Instances and built-in support for Linear and Canary deployment ...
Introduction I've been working with Infrastructure as Code for the better part of eight years—starting with CloudFormation, migrating teams to Terraform, and lately exploring AWS CDK. Over that time, I've seen platforms grow from a handful of templat...
As DevOps engineers and Cloud Architects, we have all experienced the excitement of using AI coding assistants to rapidly prototype applications. A few prompts later, you have working code. But then reality hits: deploying to production requires docu...
Every few years, a technology shift forces engineers to rethink assumptions they had stopped questioning. Serverless computing is that shift for this decade. And in 2025, AWS Lambda - the service that
