I build software
that compounds.

You can be a great engineer and still be poor.

Not because you can't code. Because you can't speak simply.

I love solving problems with technology. Building systems, automating repetitive work, making stuff work.

But I learned the hard way that being good at the technical part isn't enough. If the people with buying power (clients, companies, decision…

If you vibe coded your app, it's probably already hacked and you don't know it.

AI ships code that runs. That's development. Ask AI why it picked this pattern over another and you'll get a confident answer that means nothing. Engineering is the part it can't fake.

On our first web app, we let Cursor build the entire auth layer. We never audited the code.…

Last week I got my master's degree.

I started my master's the same week I started my first full-time job at a startup.

Early 2024, I was going to work in the day and going to class at night. The startup was full of my friends from undergrad. It felt less like a first job and more like getting paid to do what we'd been doing for years, together.

But my…

Building a startup feels a lot like preparing for a marathon

At the beginning, the excitement is overwhelming. You feel ready to take on the world. You have a vision, a plan, and the motivation to match. The first kilometers feel almost effortless; you're running on pure drive. But then the road stretches out. You need to manage your pace. Progress comes…

Since February 2024 I've been working at a startup my first job and, honestly, a turbo charged master's program. These are a few lessons that have learned:

Here it's okay to fail, as long as tomorrow you're better A merely "decent" performance doesn't cut it; every mistake gets its mini-postmortem and the challenge to level up the next day.

You change hats…

One moment you're debugging with your team, sitting together at your desks. The next, you're walking out of the Apple Store with a Mac mini under your arm.

Last week, we faced a frustrating blocker. Instagram kept throwing captchas and logging us out during development and testing. This was disrupting key features and stopping our progress.

We tried…