// about
My path started in the trenches of early-stage startups — crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and a couple of ventures of my own — where I sat on founding teams and learned to build from first principles under real constraints. Fast feedback, no safety nets, and a healthy respect for what actually survives contact with users.
At Toggl I grew from backend engineer to Head of Engineering, owning the technical strategy for a suite of products serving 500k+ daily active users. My team migrated the entire infrastructure to Kubernetes on GCP and built an in-house data warehouse on top of Postgres logical replication — infrastructure designed to scale horizontally and stay boring under load.
Today I'm Co-Founder & CTO at Chipcolate, where we take on hard engineering across aerospace, agriculture, and finance. I'm a father, a long-time bitcoiner, and someone who would rather reason a problem down to its fundamentals than inherit someone else's assumptions.
// how I work
A few principles I keep coming back to — in the code, in the architecture, and in the teams.
Most 'best practices' are someone else's constraints, frozen in time. I strip a problem down to what is actually true — the physics, the economics, the failure modes — and rebuild from there. Slower to start, far cheaper to live with.
The best infrastructure is the kind you stop thinking about. I optimize for systems that scale horizontally, fail predictably, and never demand heroics at 3am. Boring, under load, is a feature.
Systems scale when the teams behind them do. I care as much about clarity, ownership, and honest feedback as I do about architecture — a strong engineering culture outlasts any single design.
Opinions are cheap; production is the only source of truth. I ship early, watch what real users and real load do, and let the evidence — not ego — decide what happens next.
// work with me
There are a couple of ways we tend to work together.
// advise & invest
I advise and angel-invest in early-stage teams, usually where deep technical bets, scaling, or a first-principles rethink are on the table. If you are building something hard, I like being in the room early.
Let's talk// build
When the work is a real engineering engagement — complex systems across embedded, cloud, aerospace, agriculture, or finance — it routes to my company, Chipcolate, where the team and I take it on properly.
Visit ChipcolateNot sure which one? Reach out anyway — I'm happy to point you the right way.
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