— Personal Chronicle

Building online since 2018.
Some worked.
Most didn't.
All of it counts.

8+ years in IT. Multiple ventures. No filtered highlight reel — just the raw accounting of what actually happens when you build real things on the internet.


8+ Years
in IT
Since 2018
Online
Multiple
Ventures
0
Theories Used

— Manifesto

I don't consult from theory. I operate from experience. Over the last 8+ years, I've built IT infrastructure, launched internet businesses, and watched ideas scale — and collapse. This is my unfiltered accounting of what actually works in the trenches.

— The Battlefield

Wins & Scars

The Win

The Scaling Win

Bootstrapped and scaled a high-availability infrastructure network to profitability within 14 months, serving global clients.

Infrastructure Bootstrapped 14 months
The Scar

The Spectacular Failure

Poured 8 months and significant capital into a consumer SaaS product that went to absolute zero. The lesson: Distribution always beats clean code.

SaaS 8 months Hard lesson

— Latest Writing

Dispatches from the Trenches

The distribution trap of 2024

Distribution

Why every founder I know is building perfect products that no one finds — and what I learned the hard way about growth before code.

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Why I stopped trading time for money

Leverage

The exact moment I realized hourly billing was a ceiling, not a floor, and the mental shift that unlocked leverage.

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Infrastructure lessons from a failed launch

Infrastructure

Eight months of architecture decisions, what held up and what collapsed under real-world load. A technical post-mortem.

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Now

Currently hyper-focused on scaling high-availability networks and writing about the reality of internet business.


— Let's talk

Let's build something real.

No fluff, no buzzwords. If you're working on something serious in IT infrastructure or internet business, I'm interested.