Less Software

Simpler systems, teams, and AI products.

Less Software is an independent practice for selective consulting, product experiments, and small software tools.

Current areas of focus include:

• Developer tooling and workflows
• Internal AI enablement
• Engineering effectiveness and team dynamics
• Lightweight, high-leverage software products

Working Together

I bring two decades of experience building software and leading engineering teams. I work with teams to reduce unnecessary complexity, adopt AI deliberately, and build systems and products that create real leverage.

Occasionally I work with teams navigating technical complexity, AI adoption, and the messy middle between product ideas and operational reality. Short engagements. Practical focus. High leverage.

— George Mandis • [email protected] • LinkedIn

Projects

• lingua (v0.6.0) 2026-07-31
  Natural language processing from the command line. Language detection, sentiment, NER, entity extraction, spelling, grammar, and style checking, dictionary lookups, an English LSP—all through native macOS APIs.
• engsight (v0.1.5) 2026-07-13
  Personal engineering metrics, collected passively via git hooks. DORA-shaped IC insight from your local git events --- no cloud, no workflow changes.
• engleader.tools (v0.3.3) 2026-07-02
  Open-source engineering leadership metrics from the terminal. DORA metrics, PR health, code churn, and contributor analysis using bash, the GitHub CLI, and jq.
• tezcatl (v0.3.0) 2026-06-23
  Render, screenshot, and scrape JavaScript-heavy web pages from the command line using native macOS WebKit. Export to PNG, PDF, or Safari webarchive. No headless Chrome, no Puppeteer.
• whereami (v0.3.3) 2026-06-13
  A CLI that asks the OS where you are. No API keys, no HTTP requests. Native location services.

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