HTTP Under the Hood: HTTP/0.9
A practical look at the small protocol that started the web.
Available for meaningful engineering work
I’m Jorge Massih, a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.
/ Experience
My work sits where architecture meets production: clear technical decisions, careful delivery, and measurable reliability.
Sep 2024 — Present
Salesforge · Remote, Estonia
Architecting distributed services for high-scale customer automation and owning production delivery for critical integrations.
Aug 2023 — Sep 2024
OGTIC · Dominican Republic
Led backend engineering for government digital platforms and established stronger architecture, monitoring, and review standards.
Dec 2021 — Aug 2023
OGTIC · Dominican Republic
Built secure backend services for national identity, document, and public-service platforms.
Nov 2021 — May 2024
Archk · Remote
Built cloud-native microservices and introduced event-driven architecture and autoscaling across three major cloud platforms.
/ Core expertise
Go, Python, REST, gRPC, concurrency, performance optimization
Distributed systems, microservices, Clean Architecture, event-driven systems
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD
PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing
/ Open source lab
plusiv/http-0.9
A didactic implementation of the original HTTP/0.9 protocol in Go, built to understand the web below the framework layer.
plusiv/nvim-replay
A portable tool that records verified Neovim configuration changes as annotated MP4 demonstrations inside Docker.
plusiv/portainer-deployer
A command-line interface that simplifies Portainer deployments through a focused API workflow.
/ Latest writing
A practical look at the small protocol that started the web.
The ideas and systems that prepared the way for HTTP and the web.
A direct explanation of architecture that keeps business logic independent.
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