Maintaining imaginary infrastructure
Guiding a small team through speculative EV fleet ops — translating whispered incident notes into interfaces that read like folklore.
Perennial signal — alexogeny.dev
Hello, I'm Alex — a caretaker of systems that might exist just outside your frame.
This site is a stage set and a weather report. Everything you read is rooted in the work I do, even when the details drift into fiction. Take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and assume the experiments are still unfolding somewhere.
Orientation
I'm making space for thoughtful software, good documentation, and teams that take care of each other — even in imagined timelines.
Most days I'm pairing with operators, tending data models, and sketching interfaces that feel familiar to the people who depend on them. The fiction just lets me stretch those instincts, so the lessons stay portable.
- Working on
- quiet, fictional tools for electric mobility crews — interface sketches, data gardens, and rituals that feel like they were always there.
- Based in
- Brisbane, Yuggera & Turrbal Country (and whichever liminal studio you're picturing)
- Listening
- Cleo Sol's 'Nothing on Me' on loop while prototyping support portals that may or may not exist yet.
- Learning
- how to keep software soft even when the story jumps timelines.
Glimpses
Little projects and threads from possible presents.
These vignettes occupy headspace. Some are paid work, some belong to friends, some are just to see what happens when curiosity wins in a different timeline.
Caretaking impossible archives
Keeping personal tools patched and breathable: a home server that hosts generational memories, a weather station that texts before storms form, bots that remind friends in alternate timelines to drink water.
Writing in borrowed light
Drafting essays about maintenance, calm engineering teams, and the chords that tie incident response to music theory — all of it true, even if it didn't happen.
Logbook
Stories I'm rehearsing.
I don't maintain a traditional blog. Instead, I pin down fragments here when something shifts how I think about work, tools, or community — whether or not it happened exactly this way.
Telemetry rewritten as folklore
Rebuilt our monitoring pipeline so every event arrives as a story beat. Operators annotate like dramaturgs and finally trust the timeline, even when the system is fictional.
Pipeline calm in a parallel shop
Helped an energy startup you've never heard of untangle their deploy rituals. Humane defaults, better docs, and a shared sigh of relief across realities.
Archiving rituals at home
Spent evenings digitising family Super 8 footage and teaching my niece how checksum workflows work. Maybe it was last week, maybe it was a decade ago. The care feels the same.
Want a longer read? There's an about page and an intentionally timeless logbook archive.