Ed Stuurman

I’m an infrastructure and reliability engineer based in Japan. Over the past decade, my work has centered on mission-critical environments where resilience isn't optional—from tracking down hardware and kernel crashes in enterprise data centers to scaling high-throughput mail delivery systems and cloud platforms.

My engineering focus spans email security and deliverability, distributed observability, and automating multi-region cloud infrastructure with Terraform. I get genuine satisfaction from digging into elusive edge cases across the entire stack—from physical silicon and bare metal up to global DNS and reverse proxies.

I ran Linux as my daily driver since 2006 before transitioning to a Mac, though Linux still powers virtually everything in my servers and homelab. My approach is fundamentally hands-on: understanding systems from first principles, cutting through unnecessary complexity, and building setups that hold up reliably under real production pressure.

This site is my personal workbench: a space for deep-dive technical write-ups, homelab experiments, and architectural notes. When I’m away from the terminal, I like working with my hands outdoors or exploring Japan with a camera in tow.