Endrit Saiti
Co-founder and CTO of Brigada.dev in Prishtina, Kosovo. Works on system architecture, Laravel, AWS infrastructure and production LLM systems for clients in the US, UK and Europe.
I co-founded Brigada in 2024 with Ardit Xhaferi and I run engineering. In practice that means I am still in the code most days, which is deliberate. The moment a CTO stops reading the codebase they start making architecture decisions from memory, and memory is usually about two years out of date.
Most of my work sits in three places. System architecture, where the decisions are expensive to reverse and worth arguing about. Infrastructure, mainly AWS, including the CJIS compliant environment we run for a US law enforcement client and the Kubernetes setup behind a UK healthcare platform. And production AI, which is the newest of the three and the one where the industry has the least settled practice.
On AI I have a narrow opinion: the model is rarely the hard part, evaluation is. We have shipped LLM pipelines into environments where a wrong answer reaches a prosecutor, and the only thing that makes that survivable is a graded corpus you can run before every change. We build that first now, on every AI project, because we learned what happens when you do not.
The longest running thing on my desk is Avilog, an aviation platform we have run for six years. Six years is long enough to be wrong about something and then have to live in it. That shapes how I scope work more than anything else I could put on a slide.
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