About me
Building reliable backend systems for complex products
Peak productivity: Family · Software · Fitness
I specialize in making complex software workflows understandable, operable, and dependable.
With over 13 years of experience across automotive, health care, media, commerce, and startup infrastructure, I focus on stability, scale, and systems that teams can trust.
Currently, I work on backend infrastructure at Tilt, keeping livestream auctions, payments, and fulfillment fast and reliable.
I use modern AI tooling every day, but my deeper focus is still engineering judgment: clear context, scoped access, source-backed decisions, and production changes that remain reviewable.
Outside of the terminal, my life revolves around family, health, and sound money. I am a proud father of two, an active fitness enthusiast (football, padel, gym, cycling), and a firm believer that Bitcoin can change the world for the better.
I remain curious and focused on the future. My current goals are building useful products, growing HILLS Lab, and publishing practical field notes from real software work.
How I help teams ship complex systems
My sweet spot is taking messy engineering workflows and shaping the architecture, context, and delivery habits that make teams more reliable under real product pressure.
Design backend and operational flows that stay understandable under real business pressure.
- Work on revenue-critical services at Tilt where latency, reliability, and delivery discipline matter.
- Scaled ad-tech pipelines past 1.7B impressions by tightening ingestion, batching, and observability.
Blend tool access, provenance, documentation, and production rules so faster workflows stay reviewable.
- Map context across GitHub, Linear/Jira, Slack, Sentry, docs, and production runbooks.
- Keep permissions scoped, production actions explicit, and stale context visible.
Build systems that keep working as teams move between current and future tooling.
- Translate business pressure into scoped delivery cycles and crisp technical trade-offs.
- Keep the durable asset in the system design, not in one vendor's feature set.
Recent partnerships
See more workTilt
Current roleScaling the backend powering Tilt's interactive commerce—from livestream auctions to payments and personalization—while shaping API design, reliability, and engineering rituals.
ReneVerse
Recent engagementArchitected event-driven infrastructure for gaming ad engagement, partner integrations, and data-heavy product workflows.
Trajectory
From on-site enterprise delivery to remote founder partnerships, the through-line has been building systems people can trust.
2013 → 2016
Foundation in shipping
Clocked over 3,000 hours of hands-on development while finishing my computer science degree—shipping early-stage web and mobile products, learning production discipline, and keeping commitments to real users.
2016 → 2021
Enterprise and automotive craft
Engineering roles with Ericsson, Profico, and Rimac. Led distributed systems work, integrated legacy platforms, and introduced safer delivery practices across automotive and telco teams.
2021 → today
Remote partner to founders
Embedded with Povio, ReneVerse, CryptoToday, and Tilt. Reinforced event-driven pipelines, shipped domain-heavy backend work, and now work on Tilt's interactive commerce backend.
Beyond the keyboard
My life revolves around family, software, and fitness. Sound money keeps the long-term view honest.
Two kids, school runs, and evening routines ground every decision. Work flexes around their milestones.
Football, padel, gym, cycling, and short daily sessions keep the system balanced.
Bitcoin is the highest signal macro trend I follow. I keep my personal and product decisions aligned with that reality.
Operating principles
- Build systems that disappear into the background and let people focus on their craft.
- Make architecture decisions with the teammates who own the day-two reality.
- Document, mentor, and leave every team with healthier defaults than I found.