About me
Systems engineer in London, working close to the metal.
I’m Diab Neiroukh, or lzlrd most places online. I work at Amazon; before that I spent a couple of years at AWS, supporting DNS for Route 53.
My range runs from microcontrollers up to the servers I run myself: a cloud service I built from scratch, and the infrastructure behind the AICP and ProtonAOSP ROM projects. Security runs through most of it, and I like software that stays small and runs for years without paging anyone.
I build a fair amount in the open. I’ve sent patches to the Linux kernel, and done years of Android device work going back to Sony’s open-device project. I keep zestginx going, a hardened NGINX with HTTP/3, and quickna.me, a link shortener that won a Cloudflare challenge a while back. Lately it’s been developer tools and small MCP servers for Claude Code. Most of the newer work sits under Ayooby, a small software venture I’m building on the side, with its first apps shipping soon.