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Ruanne Bornman

I am an AI-native tech lead who builds practical software and futuristic systems with everything turned up to 11.

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Crown Project

I built and maintain Veldmuis Linux.

Veldmuis is an Arch-based KDE Plasma distribution with a signed package flow, a Calamares installer, and a systemd-boot install path.

Crafted in the veld, built in the open.

New repo and ISO builds are released on the first of each month.

DesktopKDE Plasma
BaseArch Linux
InstallerCalamares
Visit Veldmuis Source Repo Website Repo

Craft Inventory

Things I reliably bring to the table.

My work sits somewhere between product delivery, tech leadership, modern service architecture, AI-assisted building, frontend surfaces, database wrangling, and the occasional Linux detour with a release pipeline.

Frontend

AngularTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSAI-assisted interfaces

Backend

KotlinSpring BootC#.NETJavaPythonGoAPI design

Systems

LinuxShellArch packagingKubernetesAnsible-style deploymentsVeldmuis

Data

PostgreSQLMySQLMS SQLOracleDB2Reporting systems

Delivery

CI/CDBitbucketJenkinsMicroservicesAI-enabled workflowsFeature delivery

Leadership

Tech leadershipUpskillingPairingSupportDirect communicationProduct ownership

Chronicle

I like leading, building, pairing, and finding the story in old systems.

I am direct, open to correction, and happiest around people who can challenge an idea without turning the room into theatre.

4 years 11 months

Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead

VAT IT

I lead, build, ship, support, and keep the delivery engine moving: microservices, CI/CD, Kotlin and Spring Boot backends, Angular frontends, and product work that has to survive real business weather.

1 year 6 months

Full Stack Engineer

Radixtrie

I worked on Data Aggregator / DBI, a reporting and visibility system that discovered servers and database instances, collected capacity and structure data, and helped surface places that needed repair.

4 years

Full Stack Engineer

Movation

I grew from junior developer into tech lead work, client-facing delivery, testing, support, database work, rollout pressure, and the practical art of keeping older systems useful.

Public Work Archive

GitHub is the shelf.

I am not maintaining a museum catalogue here. My GitHub is where the tools, experiments, distro work, scripts, and useful oddities live as they change.

Open GitHub

About

Useful, a little strange, and built with the future switched on.

I love AI. Not as a footnote, not as a secret productivity trick, and definitely not as something to apologize for. I build with it in the loop, on purpose, because the future is already here and I would rather be early than polite about it.

Give me a team, an awkward legacy system, a half-described product problem, or a Linux idea that has wandered too far into the grass, and I will bring the maps, the tools, the prompts, the code, and the stubborn joy of making the whole thing move.

Illuminated manuscript portrait of Ruanne in a futuristic adventurer style
Illuminated manuscript portrait of Ruanne Bornman

Sealed Letter

Talk to me.

The useful doors are here: email, GitHub, LinkedIn, and eventually a downloadable CV once the final PDF is ready.

Email LinkedIn CV coming soon