SOFTWARE ARCHITECT · ENGINEER · FOUNDER

Engineering
with intent.

I’m Andrei Lucaci. I design systems, write the code, and help teams turn ambitious ideas into software they can build on.

Explore my GitHub The work behind the words

Software engineering through AEL Engineering

Andrei Lucaci — Architecture is a decision.Make it on purpose.

FROM FIRST COMMIT TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS

.NET / C# · TypeScript / Node.js · Distributed systems · Cloud architecture

01 / SELECTED EXPERIENCE

Architecture.
Ownership.
Delivery.

I’ve worked across startup products and enterprise platforms, balancing software quality with the realities of getting something useful into people’s hands.

My focus is on clear boundaries, autonomous services, observability, and teams that understand the systems they own.

Full career on LinkedIn

ifm · moneo

MAR 2025 TO PRESENT

INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE / .NET MICROSERVICES

Engineering for IIoT analytics and monitoring, with a focus on distributed services and cloud-ready systems.

Archive360 · Unity

AUG 2024 TO MAR 2025

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Work on a unified enterprise ingestion and archival platform, bringing data pipelines together for cloud migration and data management.

Fullview

NOV 2021 TO APR 2024

FOUNDING ENGINEER / TECH LEAD

Backend product architecture, development and AWS cloud architecture for a Danish customer-support startup. Working closely with founders to bring the product from early development toward a stable platform.

GoodLeap

AUG 2020 TO MAR 2022

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT / TECH LEAD / SENIOR ENGINEER

Serverless financing solutions using AWS and Node.js / TypeScript, alongside technical leadership of a seven-person team.

More career experience

Code4Nord

2019 to 2020

Senior Web Engineer across Node.js, React, PHP and AngularJS, followed by a contract as the sole .NET engineer modernizing a Danish ERP product with WPF and DevExpress.

NTT DATA Romania

2018 to 2019

.NET development for a WPF financial tool handling temporal indices for insurance contracts at a major German insurer.

NetMatch

2014 to 2018

Progressed from .NET intern to .NET and JavaScript developer. Worked with ASP.NET, .NET Core, AngularJS, TypeScript and React, while mentoring interns and high-school students discovering programming.

Bettersoft

2013

Started professionally as a junior PHP web developer, learning and applying PHP and Zend Framework in a production environment.

02 / PRODUCTS & OPEN SOURCE

Useful things.
Made with care.

My GitHub is part workshop, part toolbox. Small, opinionated products and practical utilities, with the code there to explore.

FEATURED PROJECTPreparing for release

PureKey.

What you type is what you typed.

An opinionated, open-source English keyboard for iOS. No autocorrect, predictions, or automatic sentence capitalization. Just your words, with precise cursor control.

SwiftUI
UIKit
iOS
Apache 2.0

Explore PureKey Read the source

A little less correction.
A little more intention

PureKey English QWERTY keyboard in its light appearance

PureKey English QWERTY keyboard in its dark appearance

YOUR WORDS. YOUR KEYBOARD.

MAINTAINED OPEN SOURCEVS Code extension

Everforest Pro.

A calmer place to write code.

My maintained fork of sainnhe’s Everforest theme for VS Code. Warm forest colors, light and dark variants, configurable contrast, and scheduled theme switching.

Continuing the project as its upstream heads toward archival. Built on the original authors’ work, with credit to its roots.

Get the extension Source & credits

Approaching 10,000 downloads as of October 2026. See the current listing.

everforest.ts

// A little care in the everyday tools.

const workspace = {
  theme: "Everforest Pro",
  appearance: "warm & quiet",
  madeFor: "the long run"
};

// Light or dark. Make it yours.

ILLUSTRATIVE PALETTE / REAL EXTENSION

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JSONF

A small JSON formatting and validation utility. Built for the everyday work of making structured data readable.

DEVELOPER UTILITY

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Encoding tools

Public JavaScript encoding and decoding tools. Focused utilities you can inspect, use, and build on.

TYPESCRIPT / WEB

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Git shortcuts

Git shortcuts and autocomplete for a smoother command-line workflow. Small improvements to the tools we use every day.

SHELL / DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

Browse all repositories

03 / AEL ENGINEERING

A technical partner.
From idea to system.

AEL Engineering is my software engineering company. I work with founders and established teams on the architecture, implementation, and decisions behind their products.

Architecture & systems

Define service boundaries, data flows, and cloud infrastructure. Make the tradeoffs explicit so the system can evolve with the business.

Hands-on engineering

Build backend services and product foundations with .NET, Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure. Stay close to the code and the problem.

Technical direction

Shape roadmaps, mentor engineers, and help teams move from an early product to a maintainable platform with clear technical ownership.

HOW I THINK

Clarity over complexity. Quality balanced with readiness.
Software that means something.

04 / BEYOND ENGINEERING

Curiosity. Creativity.
A sense of purpose.

Outside my professional work, I explore ideas through personal projects, nonprofit initiatives, and podcasts. Faith is part of that story, alongside a love of building useful things and bringing people together.

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NONPROFIT / BIBLE READING