👑 Pierre-Henry™ @ pH-7 🤖
I've spent 14 years building and improving software across healthcare, banking, retail and SaaS. I enjoy taking a product from an idea to production, but also figuring out why an existing system is slow, unreliable or difficult to maintain.
I work across full-stack engineering, architecture and AI integration. I believe the best technical decisions come from understanding the problem, keeping things simple and verifying that the solution actually works.
See my engineering work · Work with me
- ToucanDB: An embedded, local-first Python vector database for semantic search, RAG and application memory.
- pH7Builder: A long-running open-source community platform covering product architecture, maintenance and evolution.
- pH7Console: A privacy-focused macOS command console with local AI capabilities.
- Lifyzer: Food technology projects spanning product data and mobile applications.
Who Am I?
I'm Pierre-Henry, a software engineer who enjoys building products, solving difficult problems and learning by doing.
I've worked on everything from mobile apps and healthcare platforms to large-scale integrations and open-source software. I care about the details: readable code, reliable systems, good tests and understanding why we're building something before deciding how.
Outside client work, I build my own projects, share what I learn and keep experimenting with new ideas.
My Principle 🎂
🧠 Never Stop Learning & Researching! 🚀journey
title "🌞 My Daily Routine 🏆"
section "Breakfast"
"TypeScript": 5
section "Lunch"
"React": 5
section "Dinner"
"IntegrationTests": 5
My Core Values 💥
✅ Own the outcome, not only the code. I work from problem definition and trade-offs through architecture, implementation and production operation.
✅ Treat correctness as a product requirement. Testing, review, reliability and clear failure modes matter when software supports consequential decisions and real operations.
✅ Prefer clear, maintainable systems. I value simple boundaries, explicit decisions, readable code and solutions that fit the problem.
✅ Use AI with engineering discipline. Agents, MCP tools and reusable skills increase delivery speed, but their output still goes through design, testing and review.
✅ Learn by building. A programming language, a long-running open-source platform and ongoing AI and data work reflect how I deepen technical understanding.
✅ Commit for the long term. More than 11,000 open-source commits and products carried from idea to production show the value I place on follow-through.
✅ Share what I learn. Open source, four software-engineering courses with more than 225,000 combined enrolments, videos and writing are part of my engineering practice.
✅ Take care of the people around the work. I value honest communication, useful documentation, teaching and constructive technical review.
✅ Stay curious. Learning, researching and testing ideas in practice remain part of my daily routine.
What I'm doing? 💪
✔️ Building and maintaining open-source projects, including long-running pH7Builder work and new AI and data experiments 🥳
✔️ Recording practical AI programming videos and co-hosting a podcast about life and happiness 📺🎙️
✔️ Writing on PierreWriter and my engineering blog, publishing technical ideas on Substack and sharing short lessons through Daily Learning Habit™ 📝
✔️ Learning new software-engineering, AI and data-science techniques through advanced courses, then testing them in real projects 🤗
✔️ Drinking oat flat whites ☕️, eating vegetarian food 🥕 and tracking meals with MealSnap Diary Journal 🥗
✔️ Listening to podcasts and Audible while walking or hiking 🐾
- Narender Reddy on Building Better Software Inside Large Enterprises
- Roberto Capodieci on 40 Years of Hacking, Blockchain, and AI
- How This Indie Engineer Builds Evergreen Software That Lasts: Herman Martinus, Founder of BearBlog
- Hard Problems’ Aren’t Actually Hard: The Pygmalion Effect is the Problem
- Why REST Beats GraphQL for PWAs #substack #shorts
- Continuous improvement and solving user pain
- Solve real user problems by questioning the workflow #substack #shorts
- Master One Tool to Multiply Your Impact #substack #shorts
- Choose Tools Based on Fit, Not FOMO #substack #shorts
- Why Software Engineers Keep Choosing Complex Solutions Without Realizing It







