About Kof Twenty Two

I’m James Maes, a CTO and software engineer. My work connects technical direction with the engineering decisions, teams and delivery practices that make it real.

I care about making complex ideas clear enough to act on. An architecture should make sense to the engineer who has to build it and to the person deciding what the organization needs from it. That means explaining the mechanism, the tradeoffs and the consequences in language each reader can use.

Engineer to Engineer: inspect the architecture, the boundaries, the failure modes and the evidence. CTO to Human: explain what those technical choices mean for people, priorities and the organization. Both perspectives should lead to the same understanding.

This site brings my writing and software projects together. The blogs explore engineering judgment, standards, software delivery and information security, including how those practices change when AI agents become part of the team.

The projects make the engineering visible: architecture, source code, releases and the decisions behind the work. This website is one of those projects, with its own Java backend, publishing tools and delivery pipeline.

The stream puts published work in chronological order. It is a way to follow the ideas and the systems as they develop.

The Personal section is home to photography, woodworking, metalworking and restoration projects. Its journals keep the decisions, updates and photographs together as the work progresses.

Luke’s truck restoration has its own journal. It is set up to follow the work over two years, with room for dated updates and galleries as there is real progress to share.