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.

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Role: Lead Software Engineer, SQUER
Based in: Vienna, Austria
Experience: 8+ years
Certified: Claude Certified Architect

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11 Nov · 6 min AI, Engineering, Legacy Modernisation

We're Speedrunning the Next COBOL Crisis

AI made me a faster engineer and a worse one. Meanwhile the industry stopped hiring juniors and started shipping code nobody understands. I modernise legacy systems for a living, and I'm watching us build the next mess, just faster.

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We're Speedrunning the Next COBOL Crisis