Backend & distributed-systems engineer working mostly in Rust. I like things that are fast, correct, and a little over-engineered.
Currently
Mastering full-stack Rust by building everything myself. See the projects section for what's live.
Timeline
genuinebasil.dev2026
Built this site, started writing weekly.
Marginal2025
Collaborative Document Editor.
CTFs2022
Playing capture the flag cybersecurity games since.
Rust2021
Started learning Rust.
Game Hacking2020
Game Hacking and bypassing anticheats
Focus areas
Systems programming
Lock-free concurrency, memory models, OS interfaces.
Distributed systems
Consensus, gossip, consistent hashing, backpressure, CRDT.
Offensive security
Web, Crypto, Binary Exploitation, Malware analysis and Rust
Backend Development
Rust, Axum, Actix and Crates