Michele Tavella
I tame clusters and coach the humans
I build reliable, secure distributed systems and lead teams. My work blends deep technical execution with clear architecture, aiming for simplicity, resilience, and long-term impact.
Driven by privacy, open-source, and sound engineering practices, I focus on turning complexity into clarity, mentoring engineers, refining systems, and automating just enough.
Interests
- Building next-generation ML/AI infrastructure platforms focusing on privacy and security
- Exploring the intersection of privacy-preserving technologies and distributed systems
- Advocating for and pushing shift-left practices and developer experience optimization
- Contributing to open-source projects focused on privacy and security
Currently
- Working on something new to make privacy and security a universal right, not a privilege
- Researching, designing, and building ML/NLP platforms to advance privacy and security
- Mentoring engineering teams on cloud-native and shift-left transformation strategies
- Releasing open-source projects distilled from patterns and lessons learned in the trenches
- A few 30‑min slots monthly for engineers wrestling with platform/distributed/ML systems
Latest Blog Posts
mini-ccstatus: Avoid Death by Refresh
December 29, 2025
A practical benchmark of Claude Code statusline implementations and what the numbers actually mean in daily use.
mini-ccstatus: Claude statusline in C
November 11, 2025
A fast C implementation of the statusline for Claude Code CLI.
Latest Projects
DrawZilla
October 27, 2025
A privacy-first, browser-only, WebGL-accelerated whiteboard/drawing application. All data stays local on your device with no tracking or analytics. Fe...
Astro Shield
October 2, 2025
A PoW (Proof-of-Work) client-side protection layer designed to defend static websites from automated scrapers and basic bots. It verifies visitors thr...