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Jekyll, WordPress, a static site, Strapi, and now Obsidian plus Nuxt. Years of rebuilding a blog that had almost no posts, and how the current setup works.
Salim Ben Hassine · Lead Software Engineer · Vienna, Austria
Lead engineer for systems that have to run for a decade.
Eight years of backend engineering, mostly Java and Spring Boot, and lately turning tangled legacy systems into clean, cloud-native platforms. I design, review and test every change myself; Claude Code helps me get there faster. Lead Software Engineer at SQUER, founder of Codexo.
- Role
- Lead Software Engineer, SQUER
- Based in
- Vienna, Austria
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Certified
- Claude Certified Architect
Start here · 18 Aug 2026 · 6 minSoftware Archaeology: Modernising Code Older Than Me
When you modernise a system older than you are, everyone's first instinct is to open the code. Mine isn't. How I dig a business out of its data and its people instead, and why the code is the last place I look.
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10 Feb · 5 min Engineering, Architecture, LeadershipHow to Build Software That's Doomed to Fail, in 6 Easy Steps
A practical guide for anyone who wants their next big software project to end in a cancelled go-live, written from years of watching the method work perfectly.
