André Ribas

Known as Glazastov

Software engineer, red team security lead, mathematics enthusiast, and the writer behind this blog. I write about the things that genuinely occupy me, from distributed systems and programming languages to linear algebra and category theory.

The Name

Glazastov is a pen name derived from the Russian глазастый, meaning keen-eyed, attentive, literally "big-eyed." The name was given to me by a childhood friend from a Slavic family, long before it became a pen name. It's a reminder of what good engineering thinking demands: looking at things carefully before drawing conclusions.

Writing Philosophy

I write in the tradition of long-form technical essays. No buzzword bingo, no top-ten lists. Derivations are shown, code is tested, sources are cited. If something is hard, it gets explained, not glossed over.

Posts appear in English, German, and Russian. Some are translations of each other; others are written directly in the target language.

Subject Matter

Distributed systems and consensus algorithms. Type systems and language design. Numerical methods and signal processing. Complexity theory. And occasionally the beauty found in pure mathematics, because it's there.