I build backends
and the systems that depend on them.
Senior software engineer with a track record of modernising legacy systems and designing complex data pipelines on AWS for high-growth environments. I care about efficient, distributed solutions, and, increasingly, about AI.
Owned the smart contracts and the backend platform behind an on-chain product.
An AI recipe book that watches social media so you don't have to.
Scrapes recipes from social platforms and recognises macros straight from video. A deep dive into self-hosted infrastructure, Docker, Cloudflare Tunnels and Tailscale, wired to LLM pipelines that turn messy feeds into structured, searchable recipes.
A complete online course platform, built solo from scratch.
End-to-end learning platform: user auth, gated content, Vimeo video-progress tracking, Stripe payments and a custom interactive quiz engine with multiple result algorithms, designed, built and shipped on my own.
Turns annotated PDF books into Obsidian mind maps.
A Go CLI that converts annotated PDFs into Obsidian Canvas mind maps through an LLM map-reduce pipeline. Highlights and chapter chunks are embedded into QDrant; concept hierarchies are merged with Gemini Flash via OpenRouter.
A shelf of the books that shaped how I think about software. Pull one off the shelf to read the details.
Every dot is a spot I have visited, homes, trails, mountains, hidden gems. Drag to spin, hover for details.
Got an interesting problem to solve?
I'm always up for a conversation about backend architecture, distributed systems, smart contracts, or a good book. Drop me a line.
desogus.simone@pm.me ↗