Hello, world! I am Ibrahim Iskif. Welcome to my personal site.

I was born on 1 January 2000 in Syria. Aleppo is my home city, and I now live in Helsingborg, Sweden.

I am a platform engineer at Axis Communications. I work on the platform that lets cameras connect to the cloud securely and delivers notifications to different stakeholders. I work mostly in Go on AWS. More on my experience page.

Go is my favourite language, and I do DevOps alongside it. I like GNU/Linux. The distro matters less to me than being able to drive everything from the keyboard, which is why I have been enjoying Omarchy lately. I try to use free software, free as in free speech, and I think Richard Stallman was right about why that distinction matters.

I care about justice and human rights, and about privacy, including the privacy of letters and messages.

I care about how I use AI: what I share with it, and how to get the most value from it at the lowest cost. I like to stay in control of what I build, especially when other people will use it or help maintain it, so I am careful about how much I lean on AI. Life has taught me that everyone wants results at the start, but control at the end. Used carelessly, AI gives you the first and makes the second very hard.

My interests have moved around over the years: technology, religion, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and plenty more. I read and write Arabic and Swedish, and get by in English.