👋 About me
I want to share my experience building products with the next generation of CTOs and founders.
Open-Source
I've written several popular Python and Go libraries with 5,000+ stars on GitHub.
Blog & Newsletter
120,000 readers each month visit this blog and read the newsletter.
Technical Advisor
I do consulting and Fractional CTO work to help companies kick off development, hire the right people, and solve engineering bottlenecks.
8+ Years as CTO
Led development across many products. Built seojuice.com to 10K MRR. Before that — a decade of coding.
My approach to AI
I use AI every day. My teams use AI every day. It's an incredible productivity multiplier and I'd be foolish to ignore it. But I've also seen what happens when AI runs unsupervised — code that nobody understands, products that feel fragile, decisions that no one can explain or defend.
My belief is simple: every output needs a human who understands it, owns it, and can answer for it. Some things just take time. The last startup I worked on, I spent 10 years at. That's not because I'm particularly disciplined — it's because I planted something, kept showing up, and eventually the thing had roots that went deeper than my enthusiasm on any given day.
If you're building something that matters, let me help you build it to last.
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Freelancing
I was very active on freelancing websites and coding mostly in PHP and Javascript back then. I've written different kinds of apps — custom CMS, social monitoring tools, plugins for WordPress, payment integrations, etc. I gained quite a lot of experience back then and also found ways how NOT to build software.
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Building my own apps
I switched to Python at this point and also started doing iOS and Android development. Writing several apps for myself that I thought would be fun to have — an anonymous messaging app, a reservation tool for dentists and hairdressers.
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Became more active in open source
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Moved to Switzerland, started as CTO at a Swiss startup
I was hired as a Senior Software Engineer and then took over the position of CTO and continued leading the development at the company. We were developing a marketing loyalty software for big brands to gather leads and upsell more products. The core concept was connecting offline sales with online promotions.
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Co-founded mindnow — the Digital Innovation Hub
With my friends and partners we decided to establish a new digital agency to build complex products for clients and then evolve into an innovation hub to release our own spinoffs.
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We're growing
We grew the agency from 3 to 50 employees and many successfully finished products. A holding company mind Ventures GmbH was set up to pursue win-win collaborations with pre-seed startups. I also started investing personally into different startups, hoping for that big exit.
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Expanding mindnow, investing in other areas
We established ourselves as a trusted partner to many new clients over the last two years and increased the complexity of the products we can deliver. The journey continues and we're expanding to new markets and doing more spinoffs from our digital incubator.
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Growing, Growing, Growing
The vision for mindnow is to move on from being a digital agency to being a startup incubator completely — basically having multiple startup teams inside the company that are each building their own software venture.
I'm also expanding my online presence, investing more into experimental ideas and improving myself as a leader. I have several clients as a Fractional CTO and am open to collaboration if you're interested. Let me know. -
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Built SEOJuice to 10K MRR
Built seojuice.com — an internal linking automation tool for SEO — from zero to 10K MRR. Documented the journey publicly.
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AI-First, Human-Accountable
Went all-in on AI-augmented development while doubling down on human accountability. Launched AI Audit to help companies find AI slop and build sustainable development practices.