"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

I believe that great software isn't just about code—it's about clarity. In a world of increasing technical complexity, my mission is to remove noise and build systems that are elegant, maintainable, and remarkably efficient.

I call this the "Zero Waste" approach:

• Zero Waste of Resources: Optimizing code and infrastructure to run faster and cheaper.
• Zero Waste of Time: Building internal tools (Platform Engineering) that allow developers to ship features in minutes, not days.
• Zero Waste of Mental Energy: Designing clean, intuitive architectures that are easy to understand and hard to break.

Currently, I serve as Platform Leader at Fiscozen, but you can think of me as a Software Architect for Architects.

My job is to enable others. I build the hidden foundations—the "roads and bridges"—that our product teams use to deliver value to thousands of customers.

• I solve standard problems once, so my team doesn't have to solve them a hundred times.
• I bridge the gap between legacy systems (the past) and modern Cloud Native infrastructure (the future), ensuring a smooth evolution rather than a disruptive revolution.
• I mentor engineers, fostering a culture where "clean code" and "psychological safety" go hand in hand.

My path hasn't been a straight line, but a continuous evolution.

• The Early Days (The Full Stack): I started by building everything from scratch—websites, e-commerce platforms, and databases. This gave me a holistic understanding of how businesses operate online.
• The Scale-Up Phase (PhotoSì & Eko): I learned how to handle traffic, complex data, and growing teams. I discovered "DevOps" before it was a buzzword—automating the boring stuff so we could focus on creativity.
• The Leadership Phase (Fiscozen): Now, I focus on strategy. How do we structure a team of 50+ engineers? How do we manage cloud costs? How do we ensure our architecture survives the next 5 years?

Technical skills get you hired, but human skills build careers.

• Simplifier: I translate complex technical jargon into business value for stakeholders.
• Mentor: I take pride in watching junior engineers grow into seniors under my guidance.
• Problem Solver: I don't just patch bugs; I look for the root cause in the process or design.
• Writer: I share my knowledge on my blog, writing about everything from Python internals to digital sustainability.

I am currently exploring the intersection of Event-Driven Architectures and Developer Experience. I want to make building complex distributed systems feel as simple as writing a script on a single machine.

• Python: Django, Django REST Framework
• JavaScript: Backbone, RivetsJS, Require, jQuery, React, Vue.js
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, OpenStack
• Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

• ai-tabs: saves and restores iTerm2 tabs with their omp, Claude Code, opencode and hermes sessions, also after a reboot (PyPI, Python)
• Hugo Zero Waste: minimal, fast, accessible (WCAG AAA) and logo-centric Hugo theme (CSS)
• InjeCare Plan: Flutter app to manage injection therapies — calendar, injection site rotation, 100% offline (Dart/Flutter)
• Profiler Powered by Scalene: VSCode/Cursor extension for CPU, GPU and memory profiling of Python (TypeScript)
• Minimal Git File History: history, diff and blame of a file in one sidebar, JetBrains style (TypeScript)
• Zen Generator: generates Python code from an AsyncAPI specification, and the other way around (Python)
• urllib_s3: urllib handler for the s3 protocol (Python)
• CarrierWave::ImageSorcery: additional processes to use ImageSorcery in CarrierWave (Ruby)
• MsTranslate: simple Ruby API for Microsoft Translator V2 (Ruby)
• padrino-lazy: shared properties for the model objects used as base objects (Ruby)

• celery-pubsub: publish and subscribe with Celery (Python)
• sqlany-django: SQL Anywhere database backend for Django (Python)
• MiniRecord: micro extension for ActiveRecord (Ruby)
• Minio Client SDK for Python: Python library for MinIO, compatible with Amazon S3 storage (Python)
• design-web-toolkit: web toolkit with CSS, accessible JavaScript components and HTML snippets (JavaScript)
• ampersand-state-mixin-datatype-iso-date: adds the ISO 8601 date data type to ampersand-state (JavaScript)
• outlinejs: opinionated ES6 nano-framework (JavaScript)
• padrino-framework: Padrino, the godfather of Sinatra (Ruby)
• padrinobook: guide to the elegant Padrino Ruby web framework (Ruby)
• Padrino Integration: integration tests for the Padrino framework (Ruby)
• Padrino Recipes: templates and plugins for Padrino (Ruby)
• Padrino Contrib: contributed plugins and utilities for the Padrino framework (Ruby)

With Francesco Panico. The talks are in Italian.

• 2026: From Generators to Asyncio: async/await is not magic Blog post · video · slides

  A journey inside Python coroutines, from the first yield to the event loop.

• 2024: Zero Waste: Tricks to Recycle (Memory) Better Blog post

  About the worst waste for a developer: memory.

• 2023: Coding to Interfaces: Structural Subtyping in Python Blog post

  Separate the interface from the implementation, one of the golden rules of OOP.

• GitHub: WaYdotNET
• LinkedIn: Carlo Bertini
• Blog: waydotnet.com