My name is Maurice Faber (aka Morriz), and I think I have some things to share. These are best described by telling some things about myself.

Most of all, I love to travel. I decided a long time ago that I should visit a new country every time it’s winter in the Netherlands. When I am not travelling, I might be working as a freelance programmer. I’ve been doing lots of different projects and helped design and build some amazing architectures. I have been active in web tech since 1999 and handled many clients. I evolved from 10 years of PHP into full stack javascript (last 15 years) and cloud architectures (last 10 years). In the mean time I was always trying to automate the entire software process.

In 2018 I started my own company Otomi, a Kubernetes orchestration platform, which taught me a lot about enterprise software at scale. In 2024 it got bought by Akamai, which integrated it into their own software suite. No trace is left except on digital archives. You can still find otomi.io on the wayback machine but nowadays it redirects to their rebranded doc site.

When I left my baby behind I found the time to create a poor man’s version of Otomi called itsUP, following the same paradigm of using a single source of truth to declaratively and idempotently generate all your workloads. It uses docker compose to orchestrate your entire stack on a single machine. (Fun fact: All my software now runs at home on one Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB ram and 500GB ssd!)

Nowadays I feel right at home integrating AI tools and workflows into my own projects. Preferably with workflow automation tools like n8n and container orchestration tools such as Docker. But I still love to make usable apps as well with React and Next.JS. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like to chat about your ideas.

You can always chat with my digital avatar to find out more about me: maurice.instrukt.ai

My open source contributions can be found on GitHub here: Maurice Faber’s GitHub account.

Of course I also have a LinkedIN account, which can be found here: Maurice Faber’s LinkedIN account.