Technical debt · Software architecture · Infrastructure as code
Debt nobody can see, design intent that drifts away from the code, infrastructure left to rot in a repository - I work on the things that make building software harder than it needs to be. Through tools and measurement where those help, and by asking practitioners where they do not.
Daniel Feitosa
Assistant Professor
University of Groningen
Shortcuts in code are a normal part of building software. The problem is that nobody can see what they will cost. I work on making debt measurable, trackable and repayable inside the tools teams already use.
Design intent lives in documents; reality lives in the repository. Automation can close that distance - or widen it. I work on detecting where structure has degraded, and on using language models where they genuinely help.
Deployment used to be configuration; now it is a codebase of its own. Terraform files and Kubernetes manifests rot like any other code, and we know far less about what they cost to run - in euros and in energy. I work on bringing software engineering to that layer, and next to the platforms teams build on it.
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