Taylor Silenzio

Software Engineer

I build tools and infrastructure. Currently focused on backend systems, developer tooling, and exploring what Rust can do in the places I used to reach for Node.

Terminal

Experimental

$ ssh whoami.tsilenz.io

See what my SSH server knows about you. Built in Rust.

Projects

whoami.tsilenz.io

In Progress

An SSH server that identifies visitors by their public keys against GitHub. Connect and see what it knows about you.

Rust SSH PostgreSQL GitHub API GeoIP

trace

In Progress

Self-hosted visitor analytics with fingerprint-based tracking, GeoIP, and a public dashboard. The thing tracking visits on this site.

Rust SQLite GeoIP

diorama

Active

TUI tool for previewing terminal color themes with realistic scenarios. See how your colors actually look before committing.

Rust ratatui crossterm clap TUI

homelab

Active

Single-node Proxmox homelab managed through Terraform and pyinfra. The disposable-rootfs pattern was validated by a live destroy-and-rebuild, with stateful workloads surviving untouched on ZFS.

Terraform pyinfra Python Proxmox ZFS LXC

dotfiles

Active

Bundle-based macOS bootstrap with hierarchical encrypted secrets. Age/SOPS keys unlock via Touch ID through macOS Keychain, and the whole system is rebuildable from a single memorable password.

Bash age/SOPS GPG macOS

tsilenz.io

Active

The site you are on. Static-first with a dark/light theme, blog infrastructure, and an embedded analytics beacon that talks to trace.

Astro TypeScript Tailwind

rune-keychain

On Hold

A keychain utility built in Rust. Secure credential storage with a clean CLI interface.

Rust CLI

tokify

Active

Cross-platform token counter for GPT models. Counts tokens per-file and across entire directories.

Go tiktoken CLI

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Keller Williams Realty

2019 — Present

Built event-driven data pipelines, real-time notification systems, and cross-platform services for a consumer real estate platform serving 180K+ agents. Wrote a translation sync CLI in Go, then rewrote it in Rust.

Senior Software Engineer

Apricity Health

2018 — 2019

Designed a distributed tracing and logging system for healthcare microservices, correlating frontend and backend events across dozens of cloud functions.

Senior Software Engineer

Genband

2016 — 2018

Architected and led a full application rewrite from Angular to React for a unified communications platform, designing the component architecture and WebRTC integration.

Senior Software Engineer

Yashi

2013 — 2016

Pitched and built an API-first architecture to consolidate two platforms under a 90-day deadline, then designed role-based access control and unified authentication from scratch.

Full history on LinkedIn.

Skills

Languages

Rust Go TypeScript JavaScript Python C# Java SQL Bash Lua

Infrastructure & Cloud

Docker Linux Kubernetes Terraform GCP Serverless Nginx OpenResty CI/CD

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis BigQuery Pub/Sub RabbitMQ Elasticsearch

Frameworks & APIs

Node.js NestJS GraphQL REST WebRTC React.js Flutter

Writing

Posts coming soon. In the meantime, check out my projects.