I'm Dewald.
This is what I build.

The lab

Seidr Labs is a one-person studio out of South Africa. The thing it makes is maintained software — projects that get shipped, used, fixed, and shipped again. Real users on the other side.

I work alongside an AI collaborator (Claude), which sits at the keyboard with me in long sessions. It's not a stunt — it's a workflow, and it's how this lab moves faster than a normal solo shop would. Specs, reviews, refactors, deploy pipelines — we do those together. The judgement, the priorities, and the standard of the work are mine.

What I value

Built things over written things. Doing the next right thing instead of the next shiny thing. Treating the user the way I'd want to be treated by a piece of software. Quiet, durable engineering. The long view.

What I'm interested in

• Game systems & AI agents that act with real-world physics
• Server tooling that small ops teams actually like using
• Software for trades and small businesses in emerging markets
• Cross-vendor LLM reviews and AI-collaborative development