WAYSTOP · 01 / 04

MERCURY DEEP

A hardened waystop in deep space — built and operated by Max Villa, software engineer.

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The engineer behind the waystop

I'm Max Villa, a software engineer with 5+ years building cloud-native systems and full-stack products — from an event-driven payments platform at J.P. Morgan to AI-assisted commerce and data pipelines for a public company. I design, harden, and operate systems end-to-end, from the tiling-WM workstation up to the public edge. Mercury Deep is my personal waystop: a deliberately over-built gateway that will expose a small constellation of self-hosted services to the open internet.

Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Rust · Go · C# · Java · Kotlin · SQL
Frameworks: Next.js · React · Node.js · .NET Core · Flutter · Angular · Express
Cloud & DevOps: AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Jenkins · Git
Databases: Supabase (Postgres) · Redis · SQL Server · MongoDB · Liquibase

Selected work

Software Engineer · MetaplanetNext.js · Supabase · AI
Headless Shopify commerce with shareholder-perk integrations, a real-time webhooks system, and AI-assisted data pipelines.
Software Engineer · InstaMed (J.P. Morgan)AWS · Kubernetes · Redis
Event-driven payments platform; led the DevOps tiger team on CI/CD and Liquibase-automated DB migrations.
Full-Stack Developer · Numbers by Stats GuyReact Native · Expo · Supabase
Offline-first basketball training, fitness, and nutrition analytics app (NSG) — prototyped in Flutter, rebuilt in React Native; App Store launch in preparation.
Personal project · larryarbotRust · Python · local LLMs
Self-hosted AI-agent OS spanning macOS + Linux — nine benchmarked local-LLM delegate roles, cross-host scheduler/trigger/approval primitives, and RAG memory.
Software Engineer · Tata Consultancy Services.NET Core · Angular · Azure
Web APIs over SQL Server and Docker Swarm microservices for enterprise clients.
Full-Stack Developer · My Health TodayNode.js · AWS Lambda
Built an Alexa skill MVP for healthcare bookings on Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB.

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The waystop

max@waystop:~

$ ls ./waystop

drw-------nostr-relay/# public nostr relay — strfry on the edge—building · soon

drw-------media/# private media server — authenticated stream—building · soon

----------api.public/# public read API — rate-limited, cached—planned · phase 2

----------api.private/# authenticated control plane — mTLS—planned · phase 2

$ # an interactive shell lands here in phase 2 — try `help`

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Reach the waystop

GitHub: github.com/magks