Griffith Awuah
about / ghanaian, immigrant &
hobbyist photographer, footballer.

I'm a ghanaian (born & raised) technologist living in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I studied computer engineering for a few years.

I recently worked as a platform product engineer at fly.io, and before that I worked as a software engineer for 7 years.

I'm interested in the arts, philosophy and sociology, and how they intersect with tech to create societal progress.

I like music. Last year, I spent 110k mins listening to 6700 songs and 3100 artists. Regardless, I prefer ghanaian hilife and the more experimental fusion of old african tunes and electronic patterns.

I enjoy running. 5,10 & 15 km runs are my jam.

Capabilities

  • software design (go, rust, k8s, cloud)
  • research (spikes, prototypes) & development.
  • going from zero-to-one, could be anything.
  • making photos of my friends & strangers.
  • amplification -- teaching & connecting people.

Interests

  • photography
  • sociology
  • football
  • running
  • music
  • distributed systems
  • infrastructure
  • observability
  • networking
  • security

Books

  • Simulacra & Simulations — Jean Baudrillard
  • Discipline & Punish — Michel Foucault
  • Prison Notebooks — Antonio Gramsci
  • Culure of progress — Joel Mokyr
  • Basic Maths — Serge Lang
  • Empire of AI — Karen Hao