I'm passionate about building safe and secure software to improve people's lives.

Writing code is one of the things I enjoy most. It is something I do primarily because I love the craft of it, and secondarily because it allows me to build great things with great people.

The Nerd

8+ years doing highly scalable Software Development and Systems Architecture.

Proven commercial expertise in both human-first as well as AI-first Software Engineering.

Former tech Founder and CTO, I have an extensive track record of leading Engineering and Product teams in web2, web3, early stage startups and national high-security organizations.

Focused primarily on architecture, backend development and systems programming, but I can also handle end-to-end fullstack platforms, including building complex JS-based frontends with React and NextJs.

And just because in this new AI-age it bears clarification: by "handle" I mean I'm able to proficiently - using my own head, knowledge and fingers - actually write every single line of code on the keyboard, and also debug it later on, because I've actually understood from the beginning what it does and why.

All this in addition to being able to design, supervise and develop in a fully AI-first multi-agent orchestration approach, using my own cutting-edge framework for building production-grade software using AI agents at scale, already proven in massive codebases (+1M lines, testing code not included).

Generally I tend to be programming language-agnostic, though I really prefer daily work in languages that are statically-typed, memory safe and with developed functional programming features. As you might have noticed from my posts, I therefore love Rust 🦀

I believe that great software engineering happens when the right tool for the job is used, with mindful application and focusing on the main thing that matters irrespective of anything else: that the software being created is adding significant value in a responsible way to its users.

You can also get free access to my AI-first Software Engineering Playbook, a collection of actionable insights and guidance on how to create actual production-ready software with AI agents.

Freelancing

I primarily work as a freelance Senior Software Engineer, AI Systems and Tech Architect, on a per-hour contract basis, and only fully remote from Zurich 🇨🇭

Extensive experience in developing full stack platforms with scalable backend architectures, particularly on GCP and AWS, using serverless infrastructure and IaC tooling.

I have proven expertise in highly secure, military-grade environments and networks, where I've architected, directly coded and supervised deployment of low latency, high throughput & high availability distributed client-server software platforms.

Backend-wise I've built codebases at scale with Rust 🦀 and Node.js.

On a 1-1 basis I've been mentoring and nurturing high-performance individuals in Software Engineering, Project Management and Sales for more than a decade; feel free to browse the recommendations on my LinkedIn profile.

The Artist

I've also explored extensively the less-logical and more intuitively-driven part of my personality by painting professionally.

SaatchiArt, the world largest online gallery, has featured me and some of my more "avant garde" work in a "One to Watch" profile showcase in 2016, for a series of impactful oil paintings I've created during that period. This lead to several of my paintings being sold to collectors across Europe and the US. Even though it was a wild and amazing ride during those years - and I feel immensely grateful for having had such an experience - I realized that becoming a full time oil painter at that intensity level would not have been sustainable for myself and my family. So I chose to dial things down significantly in that part of my life in the subsequent years.

I do still sketch and paint frequently, and you can see my work across my most favorite mediums of watercolor, oil and pen & ink on my Instagram profile.

For a while I also got deep into Street Photography, where I developed a very non-traditional way of capturing the moment, as you can see here. My work in photography along the years has also been showcased in several magazines and virtual galleries.