About me
jeff@skiddle
- Role:
- Protocol engineer (contract)
- Company:
- Skiddle Labs (founder)
- Based:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Hours:
- Night owl
- Langs:
- Go, TypeScript, PHP, Python
- Infra:
- Kubernetes, Proxmox, Cloudflare
- Editor:
- Zed + Neovim
- Terminal:
- Ghostty
- Studying:
- Master's in AI & ML
- Flying:
- Private pilot (PPL, 2026)
- Uptime:
- blogging since 2015
I'm Jeff, known online as Skiddle. I'm based in Bangkok and run Skiddle Labs Pte. Ltd., my own company. Since Q3 2026, my team and I have been on a protocol-engineering contract for a client I can't name. My background is in platforms and infrastructure: building pipelines, automating ops, and keeping things running across cloud and my homelab.
I co-founded Aerialite, a security and privacy startup here in Bangkok, and now sit on its advisory board. Skiddle Labs is also home to my personal projects and the clients I've worked with for years, and Skiddle ID is part of it. The full version is on my CV, and the open-source bits are on projects.
How I work
01
Automate the toil
A small tool beats doing the same manual step twice.
02
Reliability, security, cost
I weigh all three on every change, not just the first one.
03
Own your data
Open protocols and self-hosting, where it makes sense.
04
Share what I learn
I write up what I build, including the parts that went wrong.
So far
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2015 Started blogging, on Jekyll and GitHub Pages. how the site evolved →
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2016 Built Klasemate, my first app from scratch: open-source forum software in PHP.
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2019 First infra engineer role: LDAP, device management, backups.
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2020 Founded Skiddle ID, building web apps and running infrastructure for clients. It’s now part of Skiddle Labs.
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2021 Started a bachelor's in AI & machine learning at Chulalongkorn.
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2022 Co-founded Aerialite, a security & privacy startup in Bangkok, as DevOps engineer.
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2024 Launched CheckDomain and Blocklist, and started my master's.
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2025 Moved to Aerialite's advisory board and started pilot ground school. the flying story →
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2026 Earned my Private Pilot License, then took on a protocol-engineering contract with my Skiddle Labs team.
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nowProtocol engineering, my master's, and flying.
Outside of work
I have ADHD, and it doesn't stop me doing the work. I game, I read, and I keep odd hours. I'm also a private pilot: I earned my PPL in early 2026, and I write about how that journey started. I care about open protocols and owning your own data, and I'm into ATProto. Curious what I run all this on? It's on the uses page.
Say hi
For work, email is best. For everything else, Bluesky is where I hang out.