Martijn van de Sande · Software Engineer
I build software and automate the work around it.
Experienced software engineer and AI enthusiast — building full-stack applications, frontend to backend, automating the manual work, and putting AI to work in real products.
What I do
Backend & APIs
Python and Go services built for clarity, correctness, and uptime.
Python · Go
Cloud & DevOps
AWS infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines that ship safely.
AWS · IaC · CI/CD
AI & LLM systems
Bringing LLMs, retrieval, and intelligent automation into real products.
LLMs · RAG
Frontend & internal tools
The UIs and internal tools teams actually use — dashboards, admin panels, and the day-to-day glue.
web UIs · dashboards · AI
Selected work
Things I’m building
AGENT.md
A two-track planning methodology for building software with AI without losing architectural control.
Read more →WordPress MCP Server
A self-hosted MCP server that lets me build and manage this site by talking to an AI assistant.
Read more →Latest writing
The AGENT.md method: building with AI without losing control
A two-track planning process I use to keep architectural control while an AI writes the code.
Read the post →Why I let AI write my blog posts
Short version: it saves me from endless clicking around the WordPress admin.
Read the post →