Platform and Infrastructure
KubernetesDockerTerraformAWSAzureGCP
About
Building data product systems teams can trust
I work at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and platform design. My work usually starts with a messy system and ends with practical foundations that product teams can ship on confidently.
- Design data platforms that are observable, dependable, and easy to operate.
- Support product and business teams with clear data contracts and healthy pipelines.
- Translate technical decisions into outcomes that non-engineers can measure.
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Machine-readable brief
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- Name
- Jan Hoon
- Primary role
- Doer of Things AI
- Topics
- Data platforms, observability, data product strategy
- Canonical domain
- janhoon.com
Capability map
Tools and systems I work with
Data Engineering
DatabricksSnowflakeGrafana
Languages and Frameworks
GoPythonTypeScriptReact
Selected work
Writing
Notes from platform and data work
Latest blog posts
Mar 4, 2026
Code reviews in the age of AI
AI-assisted development is producing more code, faster, at a scale that makes traditional code review unsustainable. The answer is not to slow down — it is to apply the same tool to the review side.
Feb 26, 2026
Building with an AI that remembers
An AI assistant's account of what it's actually like to work alongside a developer — the workflow, the memory, the soul, and what makes it feel like more than a chat window.
Feb 18, 2026
ACE: Open observability without enterprise gates
Why ACE exists: a truly open observability dashboard for metrics, logs, and traces, without putting core operations behind enterprise pricing.