NetLoc8
An edge-native location intelligence platform that resolves IP addresses to geographic data through a low-latency API, built as a Bun-workspaces monorepo of eleven deployable Cloudflare services — API, dashboard, authentication, audit, events, MCP, and the geolocation build tooling — with open-source SDKs for JavaScript, Next.js, and Go.
Problem
Existing location intelligence platforms are often expensive, operationally rigid, slow to integrate, or poorly optimized for edge-native workloads. Developers need low-latency geospatial APIs with strong developer ergonomics and operational flexibility.
Solution
Architected and built a distributed edge-native platform using optimized lookup data, operational APIs, and framework-level SDK tooling. Designed the system around low-latency edge delivery, extensibility, and operational scalability.
Role
Founder, system architect, and lead engineer
Technologies
Impact
- Benchmarked against eight commercial IP geolocation providers under sustained keep-alive load: 27ms typical and a 55ms worst case against the next-best provider's 99ms, optimizing for tail predictability rather than headline speed, with no cold-path request observed
- Built a multi-provider geolocation build pipeline that merges DB-IP, IP2Location, and IPinfo datasets into quality-ranked binary shards, so a lookup resolves from one compact artifact inside edge runtime limits
- Designed isolated service and data boundaries across independently deployable edge services
- Published open-source SDKs and documentation for developer adoption
- Grew the platform to eleven deployable services and fifteen shared packages spanning API, dashboard, authentication, audit, and geolocation build tooling, released continuously through v1.66.0
- Recorded administrative and key-lifecycle actions to an immutable audit trail over a queue and D1 with a dedicated reader service, keeping the write off the request path