Amsterdam · Building software products
Mecha Consulting B.V. is a small software company based in Amsterdam. We build focused products for people who care about doing things well.
David Abarca
Founder · Platform Engineer · Amsterdam
Product
A clean, focused strength training tracker for people who want to log their sessions without friction. No social feeds, no subscriptions, no noise. Just the information you need to keep making progress.
LiftTraq: Workout Tracker
Designed for people who train seriously and want their data organised and accessible. Built natively for iOS. Available now.
Download on the App StoreBuilt on
SwiftUI Kubernetes ArgoCD Hetzner TerraformThe app runs on a production Kubernetes cluster managed entirely by the same person who built the app, from the iOS code to the infrastructure it talks to. That end-to-end ownership is what makes the product reliable.
About
Platform Engineer based in Amsterdam. I build and operate cloud infrastructure for development teams: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps. I also ship my own software on top of it. LiftTraq is the first product under Mecha Consulting B.V.
EU citizen. Active in the CNCF and Platform Engineering Amsterdam communities.
"David is a beyond-exceptional team lead and a pleasure to work with. Particularly strong in improving the quality of technical teams and identifying areas of improvement. David significantly elevated the quality of our cloud offerings, coached our team toward excellence, and effectively guided closely related teams and internal customers."
Hessel Bakker, Enterprise Architect at Versatyle, October 2025