About Me

I'm Benjamin Toby, a DevOps/Platform engineer and CTO at Summit Lending. I build and operate production systems that support real businesses.

What I Do

I focus on infrastructure and reliability:

CI/CD automation and deployment pipelines
Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner)
NGINX hardening, TLS, caching, rate limiting
Full-stack delivery with Next.js, Bun, and SQL

Background

I started as a full-stack developer and moved into DevOps and platform engineering out of necessity, building systems that could scale without breaking. That led to Summit Lending, where I manage all engineering, from infrastructure to product.

Along the way I built TurboCI, a deployment orchestration tool, and Datasquirel, a cloud SQL platform. I write about what I learn on my blog.

I focus on measurable outcomes: faster deployments, lower costs, fewer incidents.