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Entrepreneurial
engineering.

I've spent my career founding and building companies. Back then I could see what to build, but I needed a team to build it. Now I write and ship the software myself, from the first idea to production, with AI as my engineering partner.

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Mindset

Founder's judgment

Find the real problem, decide what matters, and stop polishing what doesn't.

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Leverage

AI-native building

Full-stack apps, infrastructure and deploys, built with modern AI tools.

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Result

Idea to live in days

No hand-offs, no specs lost in translation. The person who sees the problem also ships the fix.

The story

From a cassette drive
to production servers.

1980s

Schneider CPC 464

My first computer. A few lines of BASIC, programs loaded from cassette tape. That was the end of my coding career for a few decades.

The business years

Builder of companies

Founded and grew several companies. The most recent one ended in a $320M exit. I learned to spot opportunities, shape products and hire the people who could build them.

Now

Builder of products

With AI as a pair programmer, I write the code myself: databases, auth, payments, deploys and monitoring. Several products are in production.

I used to describe what I wanted and wait for a team to build it. Now I build it myself.

How I work

A founder's habits,
applied to code.

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Start from a real person with a real problem

A school volunteer who can't learn a complicated cash register. A coach who needs to track hundreds of students. The user comes first, then the tech.

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Ship it, then make it better

Something live and imperfect teaches you more than a perfect plan. Small releases, real feedback, quick fixes.

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Production-grade, not prototype-grade

Multi-tenant data isolation, zero-downtime deploys, health monitoring, tests. "Built with AI" doesn't mean built carelessly.

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Own the whole loop

Strategy, design, code, servers and customers. One person holding the full picture makes faster and better decisions.

Building now

A few things on my bench.

B2B SaaSLive

Cybersecurity Training Platform

A white-label platform that trains employees at small and medium businesses to spot phishing and other security threats. It is multi-tenant and narrated with AI voices. Partners can resell it under their own brand, and billing is built in.

Multi-tenant · Row-level security · Payments · AI voice
EdTechIn development

Literacy Program

A platform for schools to track student literacy progress, with assessments, daily logs and reports by student, class and school.

Multi-tenant · Role-based access · Reporting
RetailIn development

Store POS

A one-screen checkout that volunteers can use without any training. Scan the items, scan the customer card, done.

Barcode scanning · POS integration
Severalcompanies founded
$320Mmost recent exit
0lines of code I wrote between the CPC 464 and AI
∞ideas, now with a way to build them
Let's talk

Have a problem worth building for?

I like talking with founders, operators and anyone wondering what one person can build with AI today. The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn.

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