👋 Ohai der, I’m Aori Nevo

Engineering leader • OSS maintainer • Builder • Investor
Currently building at the intersection of developer experience, cloud platforms, and SaaS for real-world problems.

🚀 What I Do

• 🧠 Engineering Leadership — Building and scaling distributed teams, modern platforms, and resilient systems
• 🛠️ Open Source — Maintainer & contributor to developer tooling used in production environments
• 🧩 Product Engineering — Designing pragmatic systems that balance velocity, quality, and long-term maintainability
• 🏗️ Founder / Builder — Creating SaaS products end-to-end (architecture → code → CI/CD → go-to-market)

🔧 Current Focus

• ⚙️ Shepherd CLI — Large-scale repo orchestration & automation (v3 in progress)
• 🤖 AI-powered DevEx — Using AI to increase engineering fuel efficiency
• ☁️ Cloud-native platforms — AWS, GitHub Actions, automation-first workflows

🧠 Tech I Am Currently Working With

Languages

• TypeScript / JavaScript
• Node.js
• SQL

Frontend

• Next.js (App Router)
• React
• Tailwind / shadcn/ui

Backend & Infra

• AWS (App Runner, RDS, Cognito, Route 53)
• GitHub Actions
• Docker
• Prisma

Datastores

• PostgreSQL
• Db2
• DynamoDB (when it fits)

Practices

• CI/CD
• Platform Health & Resiliency
• API Design
• OSS-first tooling
• Pragmatic architecture (no ivory towers)

📦 Open Source

• Maintainer / contributor to:
  • Shepherd
  • GitHub Actions & automation tooling
  • Dependency & branching strategy enforcement tools

I care deeply about maintainability, signal-over-noise, and tools that make engineers faster without burning them out.

📫 Let’s Connect

• 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorinevo
• 🧠 GitHub: https://github.com/aorinevo

Always building. Always learning. Occasionally breaking things — on purpose.