Mauricio
Saglietto

Senior Software Engineer · 10+ years

I've been building software professionally for over a decade, and I still get excited about a well-designed system. I specialize in turning complex requirements into systems that are simple to use, simple to maintain, and hard to break. My best work is the kind you never notice — because it just works.

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Reading

Non-Obivious Thinking

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Building

Candelight

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Thinking About

Habit infrastructure at scale

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Location

Traveling through Bolivia 🇧🇴

Thinking out loud

Rumbles

Simplicity as a Feature

The hardest engineering skill isn't building complex systems — it's resisting the urge to.

Mar 2025

The Compound Effect of Small Decisions

Every architecture decision is a bet on the future. The trick isn't predicting correctly — it's making decisions that are cheap to reverse.

Jan 2025

Why I Stopped Chasing 100% Test Coverage

Coverage is a vanity metric disguised as a safety net. The real question is whether your tests would catch the bug that wakes you up at 3am.

Nov 2024

Garden notes

Commonplace Book

Growing

Cognitive Ease

The brain's tendency to choose the path of least mental resistance, unconsciously prioritizing efficiency over rationality.

Oct 2025

Growing

Discipline

The capacity to execute intended actions consistently through system design rather than willpower alone

Oct 2025

Evergreen

Habit Stacking

A behavior design technique that links new habits to existing automatic behaviors, using established routines as reliable triggers.

Oct 2025

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Reading

Library

Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts cover

Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Making better decisions under uncertainty by adopting a poker player's mindset

The Man from the Future cover

The Man from the Future

The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design cover

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

A tech by Diomidis Spinellis

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software cover

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

A tech by Tim Riley

Work

Projects

Mauricio's Garden

This site — a personal digital garden built with Deno Fresh 2.0 and Vite. Commonplace book, library notes, rumbles, and projects. Growing in public.

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