📍 Belgium | 🛠️ Software Engineer | ✍️ Writer

Building reliable systems at Synthesia. On the side, building and maintaining a product.

I also write about software engineering at joachimz.me.

• When Code Outpaces the Systems Around It — AI can write the code. The harder part is everything after: review, tests, approvals, and ownership.
• Rebuilding My Blog From the Ground Up — moving from Ghost to Astro + Cloudflare Pages
• A More Practical Way for Developers to Learn Algorithms — practical DSA lessons from building Stacksmith
• The Cost Of Keeping What You Should Remove — reducing maintenance by removing low-value features

• stacksmith — a workbench for learning Data Structures and Algorithms
• engineering-dashboard — a local dashboard for AI tooling usage and GitHub contribution metrics for engineers

• Software architecture & system design
• Backend engineering, APIs & cloud infrastructure
• Performance, algorithms & scalability trade-offs
• Code quality, refactoring & maintainability

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