Andre Loreth
Software Architect · Fullstack & Cloud
I build products end to end, from the interface people actually use down to the cloud platform it runs on, and I stay long enough that the team can run it themselves.
I started building websites in 2014, a while before I had any business running them. It was a lot of fun back then, experimenting with that. By 2016 I was doing an apprenticeship at a software company instead of going to university, which is where I learned to do this properly. Ten years later I'm a software engineer and architect: mostly TypeScript, React, Node.js and a lot of Kubernetes.
These days I run abi group, a small consultancy firm. I take on the technical side of a client's product: the app itself, the infrastructure layer underneath it, and all the CI/CD automation work nobody got around to. What I actually care about is that the team can keep running it once I'm gone, which is an odd thing to optimize for as a consultant, but it's the only version of this job I really enjoy.
I have some opinions about boring software. Systems should be simple enough to explain to whoever is on call next, and dull enough that nobody has to sit and watch them. I've built the clever kind too, and then had to maintain it.