StaffEngineer

Tamas Kalman spent decades at LinkedIn building production systems that served millions of users. He got tired of watching AI tools "improvise" his infrastructure every time he asked them to set up CI. So he built StaffEngineer—deterministic Claude Code skills that ship the same battle-tested stack every single time. Not prompts. Not vibes. Actual scripts that run the way a staff engineer would wire it.

The problem is real: ask Claude to "set up CI" and you get a different answer every time. Hope it remembers OrbStack, Doppler, the right CI shape. StaffEngineer runs one command and scaffolds a full app with Next.js, NestJS, Prisma, Postgres, OrbStack magic domains, Doppler secrets, husky pre-commit, parallel PR CI—in minutes. The free /squidops skill already checks if your whole devops toolchain is installed and authenticated, then offers to fix what's missing. Coming soon: /squidci for zero-to-pipeline GitHub Actions, /squidmon for New Relic observability, /squidpush for real-time with Pusher, and /squidflow for durable workflows with Inngest.

Here's what's wild—it's a one-person team pre-launching from San Francisco and the free skills are already live. Tamas is a staff engineer who's literally built the systems that handle millions of concurrent connections. He's not here to chat with you about your stack. He's here to give you the exact same production-grade defaults he uses in production. Deterministic. Opinionated. Done.