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 assemble software at PostHog (YC W20). Currently: building AI-powered identification, triage, and initial implementation of product development tasks. Previously: built core features of analytics, data ingestion, or permissioning; led the Product Analytics team; then started, led, and launched PostHog AI.
I joined PostHog at seed in 2020, the day I completed my high school finals. In those pre-revenue times – no paid SaaS plan even – $1B seemed like a pipe dream. It 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. Between the topics of LLM orchestration, context engineering, evals, or agentic user interfaces, it’s still the early days of LLM-powered products. I’ve learned a thing or two, or eight – but the landscape continues to move 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 (i.e. European), 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 GitHub profile for the full collection.