About
I’m a developer and founder. I make software, run a company, and maintain far more personal projects than a reasonable person needs.
I trained as a data scientist, drifted into building products, and now spend most days on one company. Away from a screen it’s chess, cooking, and the gym.
Right now
I’m building Mercora — trade reconciliation software for physical commodity traders. Contracts in, discrepancies out, fewer spreadsheets.
Life timeline
- Born
Baar, Switzerland.
- Dubai
Moved to Dubai. High school at GEMS World Academy.
- First line of code
Probably. It was a long time ago.
- Back to Switzerland
Home again after Dubai.
- Simon Fraser University
BSc in Data Science in Vancouver. Hackathons, ML from scratch, GANs, and a neural network that told fire-type Pokémon from water-types.
- Sandwich artist
First job ever, at a spot called Bahn Mi. The title was official. The sandwiches were art.
- Fido
Selling phones in a Vancouver mall.
- QTF
First software job: part-time test automation while at SFU.
- GLENTEL
Junior data scientist. NLP topic models on resumes.
- Kliq Social
Co-founded a social startup on the side.
- Vezgo
Founding engineer. Crypto data APIs — cut ingestion from 50 minutes to 3.
- Alessa
Machine learning engineer in Toronto. Real-time anomaly detection for financial crime compliance.
- KPMG Switzerland
AI & ML engineer in Zurich. Two years, then I quit.
- Antler ONE, Berlin
Entrepreneur in residence — 100 founders picked from 7,500+ applications.
- Founded Mercora
Solo founder, building an AI operating system for physical commodity trade from Baar — the town where this list started.
- First paid pilots
Mercora’s first commercial deployments went live.
- This website
A plain text room on the internet. You are here.