Why not you?
Hey, I'm erikcodez — a full stack developer and founder. A couple of years ago, I asked myself:"Why not me?"and since then, I've been building developer infrastructure and deployment platforms
- Years developing
- 6+
- Age
- 18
- Products shipped
- 10+
- Inspiration
- Building the future.
Selected work
Products I designed, built and maintain.
Three platforms, one throughline: hard infrastructure problems wrapped in interfaces that feel effortless.
The difference
Most people can build it. I care what it feels like when it's built.
I started programming at eleven. Six years later, I'm 18, still in school, working at a small IT company, and building my own platform in every hour in between. Nobody makes me do this — that's the whole point.
The goal is to run my own company as founder and CEO. Everything I ship now is practice for that standard.
- 01
The details
Alignment, latency, error copy, the empty state nobody thinks about. The small things are the product.
- 02
The process
Clean architecture, readable commits, no clever hacks I would not want to inherit six months from now.
- 03
The product
I build for the person who has to use it at 2am with something broken. Clarity beats cleverness.
- 04
The customer
Support is engineering. If someone has to ask how it works, the interface still owes them an answer.
Journey
Six years of building, in order.
No bootcamp, no shortcut. Just a long run of shipping things that had to actually work.
- Now
Building Runway
Designing and shipping a deployment platform on Firecracker microVMs — the project I care about most. Founder, fullstack developer, maintainer.
- 2024-Now
Developer at an IT company
Shipping real software for real clients while still in school. Close to the customer, responsible for the details.
- 2025
Hawk
Founded and built a game server management platform: secure Docker orchestration behind an interface I designed myself.
- 2023-2026
Vacer
Co-founded a Minecraft network and hosting platform. Led development of the cloud control plane and the web app.
- 2020
First lines of code
Started programming at twelve. Six years later it is still the thing I would choose to do with a free afternoon.
Stack
The tools I reach for, and why.
Deep over broad. I would rather know a handful of technologies at the level where the hard problems become solvable.
Core
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express.js
- TypeScript
- React
Infrastructure
- Firecracker microVMs
- Docker
- Linux
- CI pipelines
Realtime
- WebSockets
- Event streams
- Log streaming
Product
- UI/UX design
- Design systems
- Developer experience
- Language
- JavaScript / Node.js
- Framework
- Next.js
- Project
- Runway
- Off the clock
- Day trading
GitHub
The last twelve months of work.
Pulled live from the GitHub GraphQL API. Private contribution totals only appear where GitHub permits it — nothing here is estimated.
2,674 contributions in the last year (public)
- Contributions
- 2,674
- Current streak
- 7d
- Longest streak
- 15d
- Public repos
- 6
Writing
Notes from inside the build.
Long-form on the problems I actually hit — isolation, real-time transport, and the craft of shipping something you would defend.
- June 18, 20262 min read
Streaming Firecracker builds over WebSockets
How Runway pipes build output out of an isolated microVM and into your browser without dropping a line or leaking a shell.
- April 2, 20262 min read
What Hawk taught me about trusting containers
Running other people's game servers is an exercise in assuming everything inside the box is hostile. Here is the checklist I ended up with.
- February 11, 20262 min read
Shipping products at eighteen, while still in school
Six years of building, a job at an IT company, and a platform of my own. What actually made the difference was not talent.
Contact
Building something that has to work? Let's talk.
Founders, CTOs and teams who need infrastructure, real-time systems or a product built with actual care — I read every message. Discord is fastest.
Message me on Discord