Leander Cibi.
SDE-2 at SatSure.

I'm an engineer who likes the boring middle layer. The pipelines, the search, the contracts, the parts of a system nobody wants to inherit; those are usually where the real product lives. The interesting work is almost never in the model on top; it's in whether the layer underneath can answer the same question twice the same way.

Five years in, I keep ending up as the person teams hand the messy backend to, and I tend to leave it more readable, more observable, and less expensive to change than I found it. I care about ownership: who's on call for this, what the failure mode is, what we'd say if it broke at 2 a.m. I care about product: what the user is actually trying to do, and whether the system makes that easier or harder.

Off the clock I prototype obsessively: agents, dashboards, telegram bots, small tools that scratch a real itch. Less hobbyist, more practice ground for product thinking: surface, flow, decision, follow-up. And on weekends, a camera, a list of places, and whatever's playing at the nearest single-screen.