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 Web3, automotive, health care, media, and commerce, 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.

My current specialization is reliable context infrastructure for AI-assisted software teams: connecting tools like GitHub, Slack, Linear, Jira, Sentry, docs, and production runbooks so agents can work with source-backed context instead of guesses.

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 work with AI

My sweet spot is taking messy engineering workflows and shaping the architecture, context, and delivery habits that make humans and agents more reliable together.

Reliable production systems

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.
Agent context with guardrails

Blend tool access, provenance, memory policy, and evals so AI assistants are informed before they act.

  • Map context across GitHub, Linear/Jira, Slack, Sentry, docs, and production runbooks.
  • Design reviewable memory diffs, permission scopes, and stale-context checks.
Model-agnostic implementation

Build systems that keep working as teams move between current and future AI tooling.

  • Translate business pressure into scoped delivery cycles and crisp technical trade-offs.
  • Keep the durable asset in the context system, not in one vendor's feature set.

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. Scaled blockchain-first products, reinforced event-driven pipelines, and now guide Tilt's interactive commerce backend.

Beyond the keyboard

My life revolves around family, software, and fitness. Sound money keeps the long-term view honest.

Family first

Two kids, school runs, and evening routines ground every decision. Work flexes around their milestones.

Movement as fuel

Football, padel, gym, cycling, and short daily sessions keep the system balanced.

Sound money

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.