MeremLab · Engineering notes and systems

Ugo Franklin

Cloud Engineer building reliable systems with calm, deliberate intent.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect building cloud infrastructure, AI products, and self-hosted systems that are secure, resilient, and cost-aware.

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Credentials

Verified learning that supports the work.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateSAA-C03 · Score 790
AWS Cloud PractitionerScore 880
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
AI Fluency for EducatorsAnthropic

About

Infrastructure is a product and reliability is a user experience.

I am a cloud engineer focused on designing systems that remain understandable, observable, and dependable as they grow. My work moves between AWS serverless architecture, product engineering, and the operational details that make software trustworthy.

MeremLab is where I operate a Raspberry Pi and Linux homelab with Docker, Nextcloud, Pi-hole, and Ollama. It is a practical environment for testing self-hosted services, local LLM workflows, and the decisions that do not show up in a demo.

I am also building Clarity and teaching programming at Black Boys Code. Both keep me close to the same question: how do we make complex systems more useful, more legible, and more humane?

Experience

Product ownership, technical judgment, and clear communication.

2026 – Present

Founder & Product Engineer

Clarity

Owning product architecture, AI integration, beta testing, and the end-to-end system design behind an AI-assisted product workspace.

2025 – Present

Technical Instructor

Black Boys Code

Teaching young people how to think computationally and build with code through hands-on programming instruction.

2024 – 2025

Developer Relations Engineer

Superteam

Translated complex technical concepts into clear developer experiences, documentation, and community programs.

2024 – 2025

Full Stack Developer

Rbih Finance

Built and improved product workflows across frontend and backend systems in a fast-moving financial environment.

Capabilities

Cloud first by design.

I choose tools for operational clarity, not novelty.

Cloud

AWSIAMLambdaEC2S3CloudWatchSNSRoute 53

Infrastructure

TerraformCloudFormationDockerLinuxKubernetesNginx

Programming

TypeScriptPythonNode.jsBashReactRustNext.js

DevOps

GitHub ActionsCI/CDMonitoringGitInfrastructure as Code

AI

ClaudeOpenAIAnthropicPrompt EngineeringOllama

Selected work

Products and systems with a story behind them.

Each project begins with a real constraint, carries an architectural point of view, and is documented as it evolves.

Product engineering · AI

Clarity

AI-powered relationship intelligence that helps users recognize communication patterns, reflect on conversations, and make more intentional relationship decisions.

Product platformPrivate beta
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • AI APIs
  • PostgreSQL
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • AWS
Case study Architecture

Cloud infrastructure · Serverless

DishWatch

Event-driven AWS infrastructure that detects motion and sends timely notifications without a server to maintain.

Event-driven serverlessOperating
  • AWS Lambda
  • Python
  • Amazon SNS
  • CloudWatch
  • Terraform
  • Raspberry Pi
Case study Architecture GitHub

AWS · Self-service infrastructure

Serverless Image Resizer

A self-service image pipeline that verifies access, processes uploads, and delivers optimized assets automatically.

S3 event pipelineLive
  • AWS S3
  • Lambda
  • SNS
  • Python
Case study Architecture GitHub

Self-hosting · Infrastructure

MeremLab Homelab

A self-hosted Linux environment for learning, operating services, and experimenting with private AI workloads.

Self-hosted platformOperating
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Nextcloud
  • Pi-hole
  • Ollama
Case study Architecture

Engineering Journal

Writing is part of the engineering.

Case studies, architecture notes, and operating lessons published on Substack.

01 · Architecture note

Designing a serverless image pipeline for low operational cost

How access verification, object storage, and event-driven processing shape a dependable self-service workflow.

Read note 02 · Systems diary

Operating a homelab as an engineering practice

What Docker, local DNS, self-hosted storage, and local models teach you about reliable systems.

Read note 03 · Product engineering

Building Clarity AI in public

An ongoing record of product decisions, AI integration, beta feedback, and the systems beneath the interface.

Read note

Contact

Let's build something that lasts.

I am open to cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and product engineering conversations.