@ruidy
Engineering Leader | Fractional CTO | Strategic Tech Advisor
I help companies bridge the gap between business vision and scalable technical execution. With a Physics Ph.D. and a background in building systems for millions of users (exmox, Newstore), I apply first-principles thinking to software architecture and team leadership
Available for technical audits, hiring strategy, and engineering leadership
Jan 23 · 6 min read · The most expensive mistake in tech isn’t picking the wrong database. It’s picking the wrong battle. Every line of code your team writes is a future liability. Every custom-built system is a maintenance tax that your company will pay for the lifetime ...
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Jan 1 · 4 min read · I’ve watched $10M Series A rounds stall, not because the product didn’t work, but because diligence exposed invisible risks. An infrastructure held together by a single script no one could understand or reproduce. Or an unsigned contractor agreement ...
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Dec 29, 2025 · 4 min read · The most expensive friction in a tech company isn’t technical, it’s the gap between Product and Engineering. At exmox (my current employer), these are sister organizations with the same goal: building the best possible value-creation engine. They sim...
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Mar 17, 2025 · 2 min read · Hey my fellow Indie Hackers, Ever feel like you’re juggling a million things at once? Building a product, talking to users, fixing bugs, and guess what—oh yeah, marketing too! If you're a solo founder or part of a lean team, you know the hustle is re...
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Jan 30, 2025 · 5 min read · If you're anything like me, your inbox is a graveyard of unread newsletters, promotions, and updates. Every morning, I’d open my email, see the overwhelming number of unread messages, and promptly close it again. I was drowning in a sea of content, a...
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