Solutions architecture
Cloud-native platform design that aligns technical capability with business outcomes — Kubernetes, PaaS, APIs, and the boring-but-vital glue between them.
Artetecha · The tech practice of Vincenzo Russo
Art meets technology.
Artetecha is the tech practice of Vincenzo Russo — solutions architect, software engineer, and restless simplifier of complex platforms.
What I do
DevOps & SDLC
CI/CD pipeline engineering, developer-velocity work, and software delivery life cycles that let teams sleep well at night.
AI-first solutions engineering
Practical AI in the sales-engineering loop: sizing agents, workflow automation, and AI-assisted content and code that actually ship.
Advisory
Need a senior second opinion?
The Well-Architected Review is a fixed-scope, independent read on where a build will break — architecture, scale, security, and NIS2/GDPR exposure — for your team or your agency’s clients.
Trusted along the way by
- Upsun
- The Economist
- ITV
- British Council
- comparethemarket
- WordPress VIP
Latest projects
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Jewish-Christian Studies
A dedicated home for King’s Jewish-Christian Studies department. Programmes, faculty, and articles share a clear identity, giving readers a route from exploring the subject to studying it online.
- WordPress
- Upsun
- upsun-wp
Artetecha.com
A bilingual home for the practice, bringing services, past work, and writing together. A responsive design with light and dark themes, a simpler publishing workflow, and fourteen years of links preserved.
- Astro
- TypeScript
- Markdown
- Upsun
Latest open-source projects
Upsun mu-plugin for WordPress
A single must-use plugin that makes WordPress a platform-native citizen on Upsun: environment awareness, router-cache friendliness, safe preview clones, Site Health checks that understand the platform, and a wp upsun CLI. Off-platform it fully no-ops — and yes, the practice that retired its own WordPress site still ships WordPress tooling.
Latest writing
All writing →A place for the things I build
Introducing the Artetecha portfolio: five projects, the thinking behind them, and a clearer home for the design and development side of my practice.
Read more →WordPress isn't finished. The way most people buy it is.
A post arguing that selling WordPress in 2026 is ethically reprehensible made the rounds and was then deleted. Most of its criticisms are real — and almost all of them are procurement and hosting problems rather than CMS problems. Here is the honest scorecard, including the two that survive.
Read more →I lost patience with writing code, not with engineering
A short post of mine on AI-assisted coding struck a nerve. Here is the longer version, with the evidence: the research on AI and code quality is genuinely mixed, and the variable that decides which way it breaks is the experienced engineer who stays in the loop.
Read more →What people say
More on the work page →Vincenzo sees the bigger picture and takes the initiative to make things better. He combines deep technical knowledge with a thoughtful approach to solving problems, always looking beyond the task at hand. I can trust him to take ownership and deliver. That combination of vision, expertise and reliability makes him a valuable person to work with.
I've known Vinnie for a long time and in multiple roles. First, he was an early key customer of Platform.sh and was my technical counterpart as we sold and onboarded his team. From that I learned that he had superior technical understanding of what we were doing, and also the people skills to navigate enterprise procurement and change management.
As a front-end engineer, I had the opportunity to work alongside Vincenzo for 5 years at the British Council. I found Vincenzo to be a talented architect who led global digital projects from architecture to development and implementation. Vincenzo led the development team that delivered 110 multilingual country-based websites and in addition 13 white-labels campaign websites. Vincenzo's communication and leadership helped me to adjust quickly to the development workflow implemented by him, making the development team experience efficient, a marked change from other projects I have been involved in.