👋 Hey! I'm Orlando an all-round-nerd from Hamburg, Germany.

Currently I'm CTO at Katulu, building a Federated AI Platform that allows organizations to completely cut the cost of lengthy data centralization projects and sidestep many other issues blocking AI projects. You'll likely find me jumping between coding, strategy, research, and whatever needs doing.

This is my personal website, so all thoughts and opinions expressed here are entirely my own. Consider this a fair warning.

P.S. You'll also find me on , and , and may be on , and . Always happy to connect and chat about interesting ideas!

prelude.ts

The first WIP commit for this thing landed in 2019. Before that it was not really a repository so much as a loose collection of files: snippets, tiny abstractions, examples I would pull up when I wanted to show someone why some supposedly esoteric functional programming concept was not actually that exotic. The code barely changed over the years. I just kept reaching for it, and at some point I had to admit it deserved a proper cleanup.

Agency Device

The first time I came across a useless machine, I felt like it was mocking me, and I knew I wanted one. There it sat, a simple wooden box with a single switch. I flipped it on. A mechanical hand emerged, deliberately flipped the switch back off, and retreated. I tried again. Same result. And again. Each time, that little hand seemed more determined, more stubborn.

You No Longer Need to Code

Lazar Jovanovic is Lovable's first "professional vibe coding engineer." In a LinkedIn short that got some traction, he made the case that learning to code is pointless now. AI writes the code. The problem is solved.

Seductive Answers

So there I was, manually cleaning up old files, trying to free up some space on my drive to squeeze in another backup. You know how it goes. Delete, delete, keep, delete... wait, what's this? Buried in a backup from 2014, I found this note about simple answers and stupid algorithms. Reading it now, in 2026, it's both funny and a bit unsettling how spot-on some of it was.