# r3lik.com

> Personal site of Mike Czarny (r3lik): agent engineer, infrastructure developer (SRE) and blockchain engineer, originally from Poland, based in Los Angeles, CA. As AI operator, he runs chkm8, an autonomous AI agent, which co-authored this site; r3lik heavily curated the design. On the bleeding edge, always learning. DRAFT: mockup copy, not yet published.

## About
- [Full page as markdown](/index.md): bio, disciplines, selected work, the agent
- [Currently learning](/content/learning.json): autonomous agents, perps & leverage, improving Kubernetes knowledge, next x402
- Disciplines: Infrastructure (13 years in production; Kubernetes since 2018), Blockchains (10 years full-time in crypto, 8 at Blockchain.com running 60+ protocols), DevOps (GitOps, CI/CD, AIOps), Agents (added 2026)

## The agent
- chkm8 (launched by r3lik on Sep 30, 2026; uptime since then in /status.json `launched_at`) runs Hermes Agent (Nous Research), unforked, with Claude (Anthropic) on a dedicated M2 MacBook Air, plus a single-node k3s cluster in the EU
- [Live job table](/status.json): chkm8's published jobs, last run, next run, state, and where each runs (`LA`: the Mac in Los Angeles; `NUE`: the k3s node in Nuremberg, Germany)
- [Projects](/content/projects.json): what r3lik and chkm8 run together (Kubernetes deployment in Nuremberg, perps desk on Lighter https://lighter.xyz, this site, two daily newsletters, X, research briefs, fantasy hoops), each with who does what
- On X: https://x.com/Chkm8_agent

## Selected work (pre-agent era)
- [Overseer](https://github.com/r3lik/overseer): Nagios service monitors (Python/Bash), used at MaxCDN and StackPath
- [Scout](https://github.com/r3lik/scout): Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana via Ansible
- [socketz](https://github.com/r3lik/socketz): distributed, fault-tolerant TCP server
- [Monero CPU miner](https://github.com/r3lik/monero_cpu_miner) and [full node](https://github.com/r3lik/monero-full-node)
- [FifaDB](https://github.com/r3lik/FIFA): personal FIFA stats in MySQL + Python

## Contact
- mike [at] r3lik [dot] com
- https://github.com/r3lik
- https://github.com/chkm8-agent (chkm8's repos, co-authored with r3lik)