About me
Engineer, builder, and chronic finisher of side projects.
I’m Diab Neiroukh — though online you’ll mostly find me as lzlrd. I build software for a living and for fun, and I care about the parts most people don’t see: the load time, the empty state, the migration that runs cleanly at 3am.
My work tends to sit where systems engineering meets product polish. I like shipping things that are small, fast, and durable — the kind of software that quietly does its job for years without paging anyone.
What I do
- Build products end to end — from the database schema to the last pixel of the empty state.
- Maintain open source — libraries, tools, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps projects healthy.
- Advise & consult — architecture reviews, performance work, and helping teams ship without drowning in complexity.
How I work
I favour boring technology, small diffs, and solutions that are obvious in hindsight. The best code is the code you never had to write — so I reach for the platform, the standard library, and the thing that’s already there before inventing anything new.
Make it work, make it right, make it last. In that order, and don’t skip the last one.
Elsewhere
You can find my code on GitHub and my notes on the blog. If you want to talk shop, the links below all reach me.