# Reza Jafar

> Platform engineer and independent builder. Shipped an open-source platform to 490K+ monthly users, ran LLMs in production at scale, and led SRE for crypto trading systems. Now building AI developer tools and open-source infrastructure.

Reza Jafar (handle: creativerezz) is a platform engineer focused on AI infrastructure and open source, working independently from US Pacific Time. His background spans Cloud Support Engineering at AWS, Site Reliability Engineering at ApexCrypto and Bakkt in regulated crypto finance, and LLM Observability at DigitizedLLC (deploying and monitoring Claude and Llama via AWS Bedrock).

This site is his personal portfolio and blog: writing on platform engineering, LLM observability, scaling, and lean/solo software, plus live UI experiments built with real, interactive React components (Next.js App Router, React, MDX). He is currently building AutomateHub.dev and maintaining PeakofEloquence.org (490K+ monthly active users). Open to founder partnerships, forward-deployed and solutions engineering at AI-infrastructure and developer-tool companies, and technical advisory.

## Writing

- [Hello, World](https://rezajafar.com/writing/hello-world): Why this site exists and what to expect from it.

## Experiments

- [List Transitions](https://rezajafar.com/experiments/list-transitions): Adding and removing list items without things jumping — AnimatePresence, popLayout, and exit symmetry.
- [Spring vs. Ease](https://rezajafar.com/experiments/spring-vs-ease): The same motion under a spring and an ease-in-out curve — and when each one is right.
- [Tactile Buttons](https://rezajafar.com/experiments/tactile-buttons): Why a button needs a pressed state, and how 0.97 scale changes the feel.
- [Formatting Syntax](https://rezajafar.com/experiments/formatting-syntax)
- [Component Showcase](https://rezajafar.com/experiments/component-showcase)

## Projects

- [AutomateHub](https://automatehub.dev): Done-for-you AI automation for solo founders and small businesses.
- [PromptBrowser](https://promptbrowser.cc): Searchable archive of system prompts and tool schemas from 32 AI coding tools.
- [YouTubeSummaries](https://youtubesummaries.cc): AI transcripts and summaries for any YouTube video — 12K+ summarized.
- [LeanAI News](https://leanai.news): Tracking hyper-lean, AI-native companies and revenue-per-employee.
- [PeakofEloquence](https://peakofeloquence.org): Open-source Islamic education platform — 490K+ monthly users on a sub-$50/mo edge stack.

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:admin@rezajafar.com): admin@rezajafar.com
- [Book a call](https://cal.com/rezajafar/chat): schedule time via Cal.com
- [GitHub](https://github.com/creativerezz): open-source projects and code
- [X](https://x.com/creativerezz): updates and notes
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/rezajafar): work history and background

## Optional

- [Home](https://rezajafar.com/): site landing page
- [All writing](https://rezajafar.com/writing): full index of blog posts
- [All experiments](https://rezajafar.com/experiments): full index of UI experiments