Engineering Leader · Tech Advisor · Builder
Engineering manager and technical advisor to startups and Fortune 500 companies. I've spent my career at the intersection of product, engineering, and strategy — building teams, advising founders, and occasionally shipping things just to see if they work.
Technical advisory and engineering leadership across startups and enterprises.
jQuery prototype inherited 2016, rebuilt from scratch on React + Laravel · algorithm-driven EU261 eligibility, qualified cases routed to lawyers · 1M+ claims across all EU airlines and jurisdictions · €100M+ recovered · top 10 Hamburg startup.
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Previous team shipped once every few months · CI/CD set up and shipping the same week · same-day releases through rush season · Inc. 5000 multiple years · official US college licensing · acquired 2024 · founder now building his next company with us.
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$30M raised from Drive Capital · 7 embedded engineers, one-year-old codebase · frontend rebuild, payments, multi-currency, multi-language, tax logic · enterprise-grade and SOC 2 ready · 200K+ monthly transactions · assets acquired by Traide.
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Manhattan catering business with DigitalOcean, MongoDB, and Kickstarter as customers before a line of code · full platform built 2016: ordering, kitchen ops, delivery, billing · 1,000+ weekly orders · five years of support · acquired by Hungry, 2020.
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Embedded engineering manager and technical product lead on Snapwire for two and a half years — V2 platform, Stripe Connect, and an image pipeline taken from 70% to 95% tagging accuracy.
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Owning the architecture, infrastructure, hiring, and roadmap of a tutoring marketplace from 2016 to 2025 — and handing it off clean.
Read more →Things I build for myself — experiments, tools, and ideas worth shipping.
Netdata 2.10.3 · kickstart claim + claim.conf · go.d sensors and freeipmi against a Supermicro BMC · the silent boot race and the systemd timer fix · template vs alarm, lookup, hysteresis, netdatacli reload-health · alert on collector presence.
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How a 12-chapter outline became a 22-chapter book · why the imprint, the ISBNs, and the insurance are worth it · one reproducible build for print and Kindle · free chapters as strategy · full numbers
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Station T-LPAR4 · online since 2026-05-04 · Raspberry Pi + FlightAware Pro Stick Plus + FlightAware 5.5 dBi (DPD 9 dBi pending) · dump1090-fa / tar1090 / graphs1090 · feeding Flightradar24, FlightAware, ADS-B Exchange.
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Two-tier CLAUDE.md · path-scoped rule packs for web / Android / iOS / compute · 50 subagents across four stacks · guard-commit and format hooks · MIT at github.com/roadhero/claude-code-setup · from the book "42: The AI Builder's Stack."
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Migrated from Contentful after the free-plan crackdown · 20 seats, 10K documents, 1M CDN requests on Sanity's free tier · one-command migration via contentful-to-sanity · MCP integration for creating, patching, and auditing content without opening the Studio.
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Zero JavaScript by default · 5–15 KB of HTML and CSS per page · 116 pages built in 2.66 seconds · #1 by developer satisfaction in State of JS 2025, 39 points ahead of Next.js · acquired by Cloudflare in January 2026, still MIT.
Read more →Featured in leading publications.
The FT piece — "New world of work: digital marketplace reshapes casual labour" (Aug 2015) — explored how platforms like Upwork were reshaping global employment, with a focus on the Ukrainian tech freelance boom.
