Co-Founder & CTO
I build AI-integrated software.
The hard part of building software has never been the code. It's deciding what to build, in what order, and what to leave out.
About
I'm Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ZyFolks, where I lead engineering across AI-integrated products, custom software and blockchain infrastructure. I own technology strategy, architecture and engineering standards — designing systems before they're written and holding the bar on how work ships.
Before this I spent four years as a technical lead in product engineering. I owned the architecture and release cycle of Desklog, a multi-tenant time-tracking SaaS platform — living with every decision on backward compatibility, performance and technical debt — while setting the standards for how software was designed, reviewed and released across client work.
Before that, I was a mechanical engineer who taught himself to write software. That route is the reason I care less about the stack than about the outcome.
Much of the job is judgement rather than code: choosing technologies that will still make sense in three years, and being willing to argue a feature out of scope when it won't earn its cost.
What I do
Where I spend my time, and what teams tend to bring me in for.
Designing systems before they're written — data models, service boundaries, failure modes and the migration path out. The goal is a system that is still a good idea in three years, and an architecture the next engineer can read without a handover call.
Putting AI where it earns its place: retrieval, automation and agent workflows built into real products rather than bolted on for the demo. Careful about evaluation, cost and the failure cases, because a model that is wrong confidently is worse than no feature at all.
Multi-tenant products built to be lived with — tenant isolation, performance under load, release pipelines and backward compatibility you don't have to apologise for. Four years owning a production SaaS platform end to end taught me what that costs.
Contracts, integrations and decentralised applications, with a clear head about when a chain is genuinely the right primitive and when a database would do the job better. Security review and audit-readiness are part of the build, not a phase after it.
Contact
Open to conversations about AI, systems design, or a product you're trying to get off the ground.
ZyFolks builds AI-integrated software, SaaS platforms and blockchain infrastructure for teams who care about the outcome, not the tech stack.