Robin Verlangen
Notes on software architecture, running AI in production, and the fractional CTO seat.
The Grid Is the Constraint: Where AI Can Actually Run in the Netherlands
A Dutch court was asked, earlier this year, to decide whether an electricity grid is full. Not congested at rush hour, not expensive, not politically ...
What AI Actually Changed About M&A Due Diligence, and What It Left Alone
AI changed the mechanics of M&A due diligence. It did not change its purpose. That distinction sounds small until you watch a deal team confuse ...
Answers Are Cheap. Questions Are the Work.
Answers used to be expensive. You paged a senior engineer, waited for the architect to come back from lunch, or spent two days grinding through ...
Why "deploy succeeded" is the most expensive log line in your pipeline: designing deploy systems that cannot fail silently
There's a specific kind of outage that only happens on Tuesdays at 2 PM. Nothing crashed. No alerts fired. The deploy pipeline turned green, Slack ...
Hello, I'm Robin
I'm a fractional CTO, software architect, and AI and LLM engineer. I help startups and scale-ups build engineering cultures that hold up, architectures that survive ...