About

I'm Lucas Brandt, a software engineer based in Amsterdam with over ten years of experience across frontend development, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

I've been building for the web since I was a teenager. After studying computer engineering I got my first professional role at a startup where I went from building simple pages to working on cloud infrastructure for large-scale software. Small team, lots of ownership, everyone touching everything. It taught me to care about the full stack even when my title said frontend.

From there I moved to a large tech company in Amsterdam, where I spent three years working on high-traffic web applications serving millions of users. That's where I got serious about performance, accessibility, and building interfaces that hold up under real-world conditions. I also learned what it looks like when a small UI decision affects conversion at scale.

After that I joined a scale-up building real-time data platforms for the financial sector. Low-latency systems, strict correctness requirements. I've been there for the past four years. The problems are hard, the standards are high, and the feedback loops are tight.

This blog is where I write about engineering practices, AI tooling, frontend craft, and what the profession looks like when the code mostly writes itself.

If you want to get in touch, find me on X.