About
I'm a framework author and systems designer. What drives me is intellectual freedom. The ability to explore hard engineering problems - the kind that won't let you sleep. I've built a career around that, for better and worse.
Since mid-2025, I'm the lead maintainer of django-components - a component framework for Django - it combines the best of React, Vue, Django and Jinja. The core parser is being rewritten in Rust. The goal is to go beyond Django, and make Python's frontend genuinely competitive.
saifctl came to be when I wanted to use AI coding agents to the fullest. But I don't trust having agents run unsupervised on my machine. So I built an orchestration harness that runs the agents safely inside a container. The orchestration is the layer above agents: a security sandbox, a spec-first workflow, and a multi-gate review loop. Plug in whatever agent you like.
I look up to other framework authors like Evan You (Vue, Vite), Armin Ronacher (Flask, Jinja2), Rich Harris (Svelte) - people who built the tools other people build on.
Background: I studied life sciences and taught myself to code at University of Edinburgh. I've worked at BenevolentAI (drug discovery ML infrastructure), DTU Biosustain (bioinformatics pipelines), and Bloomreach (search/personalisation platform), as well as various freelance and OSS stints in between.
If you're working on something hard, get in touch: juraj.oravec.josefson@gmail.com
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