Profitable, Pragmatic, and Still Standing
· 15 min read
How we built a €190M revenue fintech by being contrarian, what broke when we scaled, and why critical thinking beats both rebellion and conformity.
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Notes on engineering leadership from a fintech CTO. Scaling teams, building products, and the craft of turning technology into value.
High Agency: The One Trait That Actually Matters
· 13 min read
What high agency really means, how to spot it, and why it's the trait I keep coming back to when building teams.
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Agile Was About People. Then We Made It About Jira
· 3 min read
The Agile Manifesto valued people over process. Then we built Jira and made two-week sprints mandatory for everything.
Road to CTO with Àlex from Mars Based
· 2 min read
I talked with Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit about being CTO. Kubernetes came up only once, spoiler: to talk about when FTP was cutting edge.
Our Product Manifesto: Why We Wrote It and What It Means
· 7 min read
Years of building products, distilled into the few principles that actually matter.
How AI Is Changing Software Engineering
· 5 min read
A CTO's take on what's actually shifting: context over vibes, generalists over specialists, and why understanding problems matters more than writing code.