G'day, my name is
Lachlan Cox
Software developer at Tillered, where I write Go for the network layer and occasionally give myself new footguns to enjoy later. Outside work I write about software, self-hosting, and whatever most recently nerd-sniped me, usually after a rabbit hole I told myself would take an afternoon.
I wrote Tillered's network-acceleration core, including an automated QoS layer that tunes congestion-control to live link conditions. I also rebuilt the product into a decentralised, airgapped system that can be driven by a custom infrastructure-as-code format, supporting up to a hundred nodes that self manage and reconcile state between each other. Along the way, I wrote a custom WireGuard implementation that adds layer-2 bridging ontop of the layer-3 protocol; a host firewall and routing built ontop of kernel netlink and nftables; cryptographic licensing systems, and offline-capable OAuth + OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider with MFA. I've also had to build and design the systems/pipeline to ship the product with custom RHEL images, terraform deployments and designing/building the active company website. I also served as Director from 2022 to 2026.
Go / WireGuard / CRDTs / Protobufs / nftables / AWS / Terraform
tillered.com ->Worked on embedded and intelligent-transport work for roadside deployments. Reverse engineered low-level sensor hardware where the vendor APIs fell short, wrote the software to drive it and process the raw data, and built the backend for multi-site rigs of sensors, cameras, and signage running over genuinely terrible comms. Also prototyped a machine-vision pipeline that classified vehicles from roadside cameras, plus a Raylib labelling tool to feed it training data.
Go / embedded / Modbus TCP / machine vision / Raylib
hyperiontechnology.com.au ->Worked as a solo dev for a team of financial advisers. Migrated thousands of records out of legacy CRMs into Salesforce with an automated validation pass to prove nothing was lost or corrupted along the way, designed a custom client-lifecycle pipeline in Lightning Web Components, and built a React + Flask tool that bundled client documents for review-and-sign with programmatic PDF signing and a full audit log.
Salesforce / Lightning Web Components / React / Flask / Python
Worked in a team helping with devops and security on their production powershell applications and automations. Then worked as a solo developer when they found out I knew how to write C#.NET when they didn't. This put me on an internal automation portal project for technical sales staff, wrapping Nokia's NFM-P API over both REST and SOAP. It exposed provisioning of layer-2 Epipe and layer-3 VPRN services through a clean frontend, replacing the manual NFM-P workflows the team had been doing by hand via calls and emails with NSP support.
C#.NET / React / Nokia NFM-P / REST / SOAP
interactive.com.au ->Current Quest
Senior Software Developer at Tillered
Building network acceleration software that optimises TCP over long-distance links at the infrastructure layer, so any workload moves data faster with no application changes.
Writing
11 postsSmuggling NumPy Into Go
Calling NumPy from Go turns out to mean smuggling a whole CPython interpreter into your binary. So I did, and then made it earn its keep.
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