The Man Behind the Terminal

20+ Years of Code & Linux, Curiosity, and “Beginner’s Eyes”

Hi, I’m Andrei Clinciu.
I’ve been told I’m a “Unicorn Engineer” also known as a “Generalist”. In an industry that loves to silo people into “Frontend,” “Backend,” or “Sysadmin,” I’ve spent the last two decades refusing to choose. I started “coding” when I was 13. I began with something which “modern” teens will probably not encounter, namely IRC and IRC eggdrop bots which got me into programming. Back then, there were no tutorials, courses or books, and being a kid I had no idea how to “research”. So I had to learn by trial and error and hardships. I’ve always chosen a peculiar path and used very niche programming languages (Tcl, Elixir, Erlang) and tools.

Since then, I’ve obsessed over how computers function (hardware, networking & sysadmin), how software scales , and how to keep the “bad guys” out (Cybersecurity). Even though I went through all these different subdomains in IT I always came back to software development since that’s what

Why “Beginner’s Eyes”?

The path to mastery isn’t about knowing everything; it’s about the courage to unlearn and relearn. Even after 20 years of Linux sysadmin work and programming in Go, Elixir, and Tcl, I approach every new project as if I’m seeing it for the first time.
If you aren’t afraid to relearn the basics, you’ll always find a better way to do them. Now, this does not mean I go after the shiny new framework or library out there each time. It means I try to be as pragmatic as possible. Prefering a simple solution over over-engineering, which is the case with today’s world.

My “Pragmatic” Stack

I don’t chase hype. I chase Results.

  • Minimalism: I prefer a single Go binary over a 50-container microservice mess.
  • Sovereignty: I self-host my code on Fossil SCM because I want to own my history, not rent it from Microsoft/GitHub.
  • Truth in Plaintext: My documentation lives in Markdown and Asciidoctor. If a tool doesn’t support plaintext, I probably won’t use it.
  • Self Hosted - I believe self hosted software with it;s basic 3 requirements should be the norm in 70 to 90% of situations
    1. single binary executable
    2. local easy to inspect & backup database (sqlite, kvdb, etc)
    3. no external dependencies (self contained)

Contact me

Send me an email andrei+fullstackdevops[at @]subl.im

Giving Back

fullstackdevops.eu is my way of giving back to the community in an era of Artificial INtelligence slop. I’m sharing things I’ve gathered over decades—hard-earned lessons in debugging, the art of researching, and building “bulletproof” automation.

Want to join the conversation?
In the future I’m going to launch aa private-first community at /community where I provide deep-dive architectural advice.

I’ve also went through a burnout and discovered somatics, when I have the time I publish audio exercises which help relieve stress, chronic pain, improve posture and deal with anxiety