Tanner JepsenSoftware, Security, and Systems Thinking

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This is Tanner Jepsen’s personal site. It exists as a place to think in public about how real systems work, especially the parts that are usually hidden behind abstractions.

Most writing here sits at the intersection of software engineering, security, and infrastructure. Typical topics include distributed systems, auth and cryptography, testing strategy, developer tooling, and the practical trade-offs that show up when code meets production.

The style is intentionally first-principles and hands-on: break things down, run experiments, and explain conclusions clearly. Alongside software posts, you’ll also find occasional notes from homelab projects, networking work, hardware tinkering, and creative writing experiments such as Crest Prime.

The goal is straightforward: capture useful ideas, make complex technical topics easier to reason about, and share lessons learned while building actual systems.