Kévin Olivar outdoors in a snowy park

Hi, I’m Kévin.

I’m a software engineer with a background in frontend architecture, technical leadership and design-to-code workflows.

I’m particularly interested in the space between engineering, product, design and automation: how things are built, but also how they can be made simpler, clearer and easier to work with.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked in international environments with people from very different cultures, backgrounds and ways of thinking. That experience has shaped how I communicate, collaborate and approach problems.

Over time, my interests have expanded beyond writing software into technical direction, mentoring, DesignOps, automation and building small products of my own.

This blog is where I write about things I’ve had to figure out along the way, sometimes technical, sometimes about work, people, processes, business, or simply navigating everyday systems.

I’m less interested in highly technical deep dives for their own sake. I tend to write about the practical side of things: how people collaborate, how decisions get made, how systems can be improved, and what I learn while trying to make something clearer or easier.

If I spend hours trying to understand something, there is a good chance I’ll turn it into a post that might save someone else some time.

I also have a habit of turning simple questions into small research projects.

Outside work

I’m into photography, cooking, gardening and board games.

I guess there is a pattern there somewhere. I like making things, improving how things work, and probably spending a bit too much time on details that other people would happily ignore.

That probably explains most of this blog.