RAW INPUT
The problem comes in, not the solution. We start by measuring real traffic, real costs, and real constraints. Without that, there is no design—only opinion.
01
THE LAB
How the assembly line works
BUILD
The smallest architecture that can handle the next order of magnitude. Code that can be deleted. Interfaces before implementations.
TEST
The quality gate is non-negotiable: unit, contract, load, and static analysis run in parallel on every artifact.
DEPLOY
A canary release from 5% to 100% with automatic rollback. If deployment feels risky, deployment is not the real problem.
OBSERVE
Metrics, traces, and logs in a single dashboard. An alert must arrive before the incident—or it is not useful.
02
PROJECTS
Selected work, built and published
hlab
A CLI and full-screen TUI that turns Proxmox VM and LXC management into one workflow, orchestrating Terraform and Ansible without hand-written infrastructure code.
BitKode
A bilingual engineering field notebook connecting long-form articles, practical guides, canonical references, and concise notes across software architecture, platforms, and AI.
03
EXPERIMENTS
Prototypes, benchmarks, and technical explorations
IDEXPERIMENTWHAT IT EXPLORESACCESS
EXP-001
Glazz
A production-oriented AI chat platform: guest-to-user migration, realtime streaming, durable identity, quotas, provider portability, and explicit release gates.
PREVIEW ↗
SOURCE ↗
EXP-002
SoundFlow
A full-stack feature-voting portal with ranked discovery, authentication, voting rules, and end-to-end correlation across a Go API and React client.
DEMO ↗
SOURCE ↗
EXP-003
LLM Backend Benchmark
Seventeen LLMs solve the same Go backend assessment, then face a 280-point rubric, real builds, tests, and race detection.
REPORT ↗
SOURCE ↗
EXP-004
Notification Dispatch
An event-driven worker that consumes Kafka events, persists an auditable idempotent lifecycle, resolves subscriptions, and delivers webhooks.
SOURCE ↗
EXP-005
BanHammer
A hierarchical sliding-window rate limiter for critical request paths, using bucketed counters and sharded state to target million-RPS workloads.
PRIVATE
04
ABOUT
The engineer behind the lab
everlabs.dev is my public engineering lab—a place where systems, tools, experiments, and technical notes remain open enough to inspect, run, and question.
I’m Ever Cifuentes, a software architect and staff backend engineer. For fourteen years I’ve designed distributed systems for streaming, telecommunications, and large-scale commerce—work where reliability, boundaries, and operational clarity matter long after launch.
This portfolio is the experimental counterpart to that professional path. Some entries are production-ready tools; others are prototypes, benchmarks, or assessments. I publish both because the decisions and evidence behind a system are part of the work.
EXPLORE MY PROFESSIONAL WORK ↗- Role
- Software Architect
- Practice
- Distributed Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Based in
- Bogotá, Colombia
05
CONTACT
Ideas, feedback, and technical conversations
contact@everlabs.dev
For questions about a project, potential collaborations, or simply to compare notes, write to me. Include the project or idea that brought you here.