Nebez Briefkani
Software & startup enthusiast based in Toronto, Canada
Currently Head of Customer Engineering, Canada at AWS Canada helping public sector customers innovate for Canadian citizens. I run a team of forward-deployed software engineers and an investment program focused on solving Canada's toughest challenges.
Previously co-founded vessel.co, ran engineering teams at Lightspeed, SSENSE, and LXRandCo, and developed for now-defunct Infantry Online.
After two failed ventures and one successful IPO of an omnichannel retailer, I've developed deep expertise in ecommerce, retail consumer, and payments industries. I help start-ups in similar industries with product development, technical direction, and growth. Email and LinkedIn are the best way to get replies.
| Feb 27 2026 | No more AI in my IDE In my text editor, I write text. The most enjoyable and productive AI tools are ones that have reimagined their surface areas, not the ones that have been bolted into the IDE. |
| Feb 23 2026 | Woe is Anthropic Anthropic have become better at generating Spinglish tokens than any other AI lab out there today. Nobody should care about todays "distillation attack". |
| Feb 20 2026 | Just deploy your code CD is (great && expensive). Bash scripts and ssh are usually enough. This site doesn't warrant the complexity of "safe" deployment pipelines. Does yours? |
| Feb 16 2026 | Uneconomical use of 30gb ram I found out I have an unused 1gbps port at home. So I moved off GitHub pages and put a little web server in my guest room. Hopefully my power doesn't go out. |
| May 11 2020 | Microservice BS Trading compile-time type safety for runtime errors, feature velocity for defects, and useful stack traces for service meshes and a hefty cloud bill. Welcome to Microservices. |