Welcome to my website

2026-11-11 · 2 min read · by Raphaël Gonçalves

I have tried many times to maintain a personal blog. I used to have my own personal CMS built in PHP, then I used Medium, but I quickly got tired of them.

The trend these days, since at least 1 year, is about AI. Everything is about AI, new job openings, my current work as Engineering Lead, my engineer's work, etc.

When building Svalin, I started talking with some investors, and even their website was AI based. So when I decided to work on this website, I started initially as a basic static webpage. But then it made me think: Does it really make sense nowadays?

So to try and play, I decided to use our new obsession with tools like Claude or Gemini to build a "Claude" like page to present my experience and projects. This blog is also very basic MD file based, pushed to git and visible on the website when these articles are ready. Since I use a chatbot base knowledge, I also added some RAG type of pipeline to be able to give the AI chatbot the possibility to propose the correct content based on the user input.

What is that blog going to be about

I feel that I want to use that more about my knowledge, my learnings, maybe some case studies and random thoughts. I believe it will be irregular at first.

You should expect topics such as:

Leadership: I am an engineering manager, my focus is about Engineers and People leadership. I read a lot about this topic and will share knowledge.
System Desigm: While I work for more than 10 years in the industry, working on scalable SaaS products, I still learn a lot every single day. I want to share more about that, even some case study, some design exercise I decided to do. Going to do a deep dive.
Technology and projects: I built these projects to use technology which I may not have any possibility to use in my current job. I want to share more about them. Give more technical details when possible, design decision, etc.

This website

This is not perfect, but I build a basic experience which you can explore my experience, get information about my thoughts. I am more than happy to connect via email or linkedin.