I'm Alex, an AI engineer with a decade-plus of shipping software. I set up agents, automate the work nobody wants to do, write agentic code, and help teams get good at building with AI. Based in the Netherlands; Dutch & English.
Agents, automations, and the times I helped a team learn to build it themselves. Filter by the kind of work.
What I'm learning building agents and helping teams adopt them. Thinking in public.
The temptation is to start with the flashiest workflow. Start with the one nobody will miss if it breaks.
A demo proves an agent can work once. An eval suite proves it keeps working. Guess which one ships.
Less typing, more judgment. The bottleneck moves from writing code to deciding what is worth building.
Guardrails, dry-runs, and the human-in-the-loop gates I wire into every agent that can touch real systems.
I've spent a decade-plus shipping software: leading backend teams, architecting cloud-native systems, and delivering AI platforms from enterprise apps to chatbots. These days I point all of that at agentic systems and automation: LLM agents, RAG over a vector store, and MCP tool integrations. What separates a demo from something you can actually ship is the boring layer around it: evals, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop gates. That's the part I care about most.
I care about two boring things that make systems last: security and maintainability. OWASP habits, SOLID code, tests and evals you can actually trust. And I like leaving teams better than I found them: half the value is the system, the other half is your people knowing how to build the next one.
Building agents that earn their keep, and helping a couple of teams get fluent in agentic coding. Open to projects from the Netherlands and remote.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“We replaced a 6-hour weekly process with an automation that runs in four minutes. The code is in our repo and our own engineers maintain it.”
Whether it's an agent to build, a workflow to kill, or a team to level up, tell me what you're wrestling with and I'll tell you straight if I can help. I read every message myself.
Prefer email? Reach me directly at alex@axxe.tech
