📝 Recent writings

• The coding interview in 2025
• Python Tooling at Scale: LlamaIndex’s Monorepo Overhaul
• Turbo charge your template prompts with Banks

👷 Work

After two years working on the open source AI framework Haystack, I joined LlamaIndex in June 2024 as a founding engineer, again working on open source software. I'm now in-between jobs, detoxing from AI fatigue, decluttering my digital life and reading a lot, mostly fiction.

• 💻 Current languages, sorted by proficiency DESC: .py, .go, .ts, .rs
• ⚒️ Current topics: AI workflows, deployment strategies

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Life

I'm currently reading Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon and Build a Large Language Model by Sebastian Raschka. I've spent several hours reordering my bookshelf, organizing 300+ volumes and syncing my Goodreads account.

I removed all social media apps from my phone. My reading throughput went through the roof. Fuck short attention spans. And fuck LinkedIn, I've set it up to forward messages to my email, I'll use it to browse others' profiles but I'm not doomscrolling anymore.

I said on multiple occasions that ouses are living creatures requiring constant attention and maintenance and contractors help keeping expenses down by never showing up. But recently I witnessed a black swan having one contractor respecting deadlines and doing an amazing job on my driveway. I'm still amazed.

I keep practicing guitar and studying music, my gear still consists of a Seagull S60 acoustic guitar, an Acus One Forstrings 5T amplifier and a travel guitar, a Crafter Mino.

💭 Inspiring notes

• See, managers tell you where you are. Leaders (...) tell you where you're going.
• Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession.
• Would you buy a car if it eats 100 liters per 100 kilometers? How about 1000 liters? With computers, we do that all the time.
• You only have this one crazy and precious life. That’s why you owe it to yourself to see who you can become, and how far you can go.
• This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence.
• You’re a set of DNA that’s never existed before in human history and will never exist again.