Andrei Gosman

I’m a solution architect by training and necessity, working at the intersection of enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, and the operational reality of running production systems. My day job pulls me across a handful of organisations in very different sectors, which keeps the work honest and the patterns testable.

This site is where I write about what I learn — both from the day job and from the parallel curiosities that keep me sane: gliding, software-defined radio, smart-home tinkering, and the occasional weekend project that escapes its original scope.

The corporate work pays for the gliding. The gliding keeps the corporate work in perspective. The Lab keeps both of them honest.

How I work

My approach to architecture is shaped by a few non-negotiables:

• Decisions before diagrams. A clear decision is worth more than ten pretty diagrams documenting an unclear one.
• Constraints over preferences. The real architecture lives in the constraints — regulatory, operational, organizational. Preferences are the easy part.
• Honest trade-offs. If there’s no trade-off, it’s not a decision. If a vendor says there’s no trade-off, they’re selling something.
• Hands-on enough to be useful. I write code, configure cloud resources, debug production incidents. The work doesn’t always require it; the credibility does.

If any of this resonates, or if you have a hard architecture problem you want to talk through, I’m reachable below.