Hi! I'm Valentin Tunev
I'm all about cutting through the clutter in web development. In an industry often fixated on excess and complexity, my focus is on simplicity, reliability, and quality. I'm a firm believer in lean and effective software development, challenging the norm of oversized budgets, teams and projects.
Traditional web apps are back
One of the main characteristics of software and software development is abstraction. Hiding the complexity of a solved problem while also providing benefits such as composability, increased productivity, readability. In its most basic form web development is a set of software fundamentals interacting with each other in the form of …
Identifying with a tool
I am not familiar with any other profession or craft in which the practitioners identify with their tools as mush as in software development. The arguments and debates around the tools with which one does their work is as old as the profession itself. I have seen people defend their …
Convenience and power, a slippery slope into complacency
The software world is currently experiencing a time of excess and overabundance. It is trivial to spin up hundreds of VMs of any size, you can store infinite amounts of data in the cloud, user devices are insanely fast. Up until recently money was plenty, you could hire hundreds of …
Downsizing in tech companies
There appears to be a downsizing trend in technology companies.
What I see is a great opportunity to showcase that successful companies and products can be built by far smaller teams. Building yet another CRUD API or website does not require 5 different teams consisting of multiple engineers, designers, project …