about

I'm Liviu,

I spent my career pulling apart broken things and figuring out why they failed. Most recently as a Failure Analysis Engineer at ZT Systems, diagnosing faults in large-scale server infrastructure built for Microsoft and Amazon. Before and alongside that, I've worked as a sysadmin, network admin, infrastructure engineer, and whatever else the problem required – now under my own ZZP, I mean IT.

I think by making things. Guitars or the speaker cabinet, servers, code, the furniture in my house – the medium changes but the process is the same: take something apart, understand it, put it back together better. Right now I'm teaching myself software development through hands-on projects, delving into Git and CI/CD by breaking things and fixing them.

Honestly, I'm interested in everything. Cars, cooking, film, gaming, photography, travel, music theory, philosophy, psychology – every drop of life is worth understanding. I run a homelab that keeps growing, self-host everything I can, and spend whatever time is left reading or soldering something that probably didn't need soldering.

I value questioning assumptions, learning through inquiry, and continuous improvement. My approach is influenced by the Socratic method and Zen koans.

"If you're going to try, go all the way."

This site is where I document the process. Not the polished results - the thinking, the mistakes, the slow progress. It serves as an open journal.

Download my résumé. My name is pronounced "leave-you".
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