Aythan Esmaeel

Aythan's Blog

I write about software development, technology, and the people that shape it.

Acting Without Reassurance

There is a difficult truth that tends to surface only when we are already in the middle of something demanding, something that cannot be rushed or solved through cleverness alone. Constant reassurance is incompatible with long-term goals...

Delivering Aurora: Building XPS’s Pensions Administration Platform

We were part of the team that helped deliver Aurora, the pensions administration platform developed by XPS Pension Administrators and launched in 2023...

Delivering the TOMRA 5C: Software for Machines That Cannot Fail

We worked with Tomra on the software platform underpinning the TOMRA 5C Sorting Machine, one of the most advanced optical sorting machines in their food portfolio...
Aythan Esmaeel

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