Tim Antchoutine · New York
I build self-hosted tools for developers.
Payments platform engineer in fintech by day. Nights and weekends I build and sell tools I use myself: personal finance without bank logins, AWS security you can run in your own account, and the operating discipline for fleets of AI coding agents.
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Kits & tools
Recent writing
All posts →- Cutting my side project's AWS bill from $135 to $57 a month NAT gone, RDS down-tiered, Fargate right-sized, Container Insights off — with zero downtime, one circuit-breaker save, and the tradeoffs written down. Jul 27, 2026
- Why I built a security digest instead of a dashboard Solo founders have eleven consoles they never open. AntWatch sends one email a day with a score you can explain — and your security data never leaves your account. Jul 27, 2026
- Run a fleet of coding agents without it collapsing The 90-minute setup: one merge authority, a real merge gate, health thresholds, and your first handoff brief. No migration project required. Jul 24, 2026
About
I run everything I sell: the finance app tracks my household, the security digest watches my own AWS account, and the agent-fleet playbook is how my repos actually ship. At home there's an over-engineered network with ADRs and runbooks, because a homelab deserves the same discipline as production. More about me →
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