When I was 7, I always looked forward to the next new LEGO set to assemble. But what I loved even more was building a new contraption out of all the bricks I had from disassembling sets. Then one day, I deleted shell32.dll from the family Windows XP PC.
It was at that moment I realized computers are much closer to LEGOs than magic.
These days, I’m assembling software at PostHog (YC W20). Building self-driving for software products – agents solving product problems and gaps automatically, with ready-to-merge pull requests as the output.
Previously here: Started, led, and launched PostHog AI, having worked with LLMs since GPT-3. Built the first iteration of LLM Analytics. Led the Product Analytics team – I’ve developed core parts of that product (funnels, trends, dashboards, and more). Migrated and scaled PostHog’s early data ingestion. Designed foundational platform architecture (organizations, project-based permissioning). Shipped PostHog’s first design system and then its complete redesign.
I joined PostHog at seed in 2020, the day after completing my final high school exam. $1B seemed like a pipe dream back then - no revenue even. We’ve reached well over that. Turns out scouring the HN “Who is hiring?” thread is worth it, if you can back it up with actually building!
As a product engineer, I believe in:
- understanding the user
- building the right solution for their problem
- productizing that solution
Broadly focused on agents for actionable research. It’s still the early days of LLMs in the economy. How we orchestrate them, feed with context, evaluate, and expose to users – all up in the air. I’ve learned a thing or eight so far – but technology has never moved this fast.
There are too many things I’m passionate about outside of tech. Juggling them is a challenge:
- photography – see my Unsplash profile, I live and die by the Sony RX100
- travel – alternating between cities, towns, mountains, and shores, my long–running goal is to visit every European capital; currently at 26 out of 44
- architecture – the built environment around us shapes our consciousness; return to ornamentation and classical motifs
- urbanism – just like architecture, only at a higher level of abstraction; build walkable cities for humans, not cars
- cinema – there’s no bad genre, there are only bad screenplays
- music – soundtracks in particular; the piano is the superior instrument
- cycling – not only the best way to get around any sane city, it’s also fun
- industrial design – often undervalued, it rules our every day, whether it’s the push/pull door, the device you’re reading this on, the Google results page, or your notes app
- astronomy – I was an astrophysics nerd before I realized software is cool too and has real career prospects
- progress studies – how did humanity’s output skyrocket in the last two centuries, and how do we keep the cycle of technological progress going?
- VC – I’m looking for European success stories, both founders and headquarters (EU–INC LFG); but VCs Congratulating Themselves never gets old
- LEGO – still! big fan of Icons, Ideas, Architecture
And I can’t stop myself when the urge to build a side project hits. Take a look at my Projects for the full collection.