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SerdiPay
I advise the team at SerdiPay on payment systems and scalability, helping them build robust solutions that grow with their business needs.
Hi, I'm Albert!
I write about software that holds up over time, and the experiences that shape how I think about it. Focused on judgment, constraints, and clarity in systems, work, and life.
Projects
Thoughts
AI in Long-Lived Systems
Every AI integration is a bet that you can monitor something you do not fully control.
The conversation about AI
Tooling and Accidental Complexity
No one decides to make a system heavy. It happens one reasonable choice at a time.
A team adds a
Abstractions That Age Poorly
Good abstractions compress complexity. Bad abstractions relocate it.
The best ones disappear. You stop noticing them. The worst ones announce
Refactoring as a Signal
The code that needs refactoring most often is rarely the worst code. It is the code sitting on top of
Defaults Nobody Revisits
Best practices are borrowed conclusions. They compress someone else's context into a rule you can follow without thinking.
The Carrying Cost of Flexibility
Flexibility is one of the most intuitive design goals in software. Make it configurable. Make it extensible. Build the abstraction
Time As A Design Constraint
Most systems are designed against requirements. Features, deadlines, throughput targets. These are real inputs, but they share an omission: they
Experiences
Tech Lead
Cisco
2016 - Present
Software Consultant
World Bank
2014-2016
Software Consultant
USAID
2009-2014
Software Engineer
Rwanda Revenue Authority
2006 - 2009