Most of what I do sits at the intersection of systems, AI tooling, and developer experience. Thirty years in quality engineering and product leadership taught me what the best tools feel like. The last three years taught me I can build them myself.

When local LLMs became serious — models loading into VRAM, inference running in the background, GPU memory turning into a first-class concern — I found myself staring at Task Manager and coming up empty. The tool for the moment did not exist, so I wrote it. That became Dofek. Shipped in Rust because performance is not optional for a monitor, built on trading-terminal principles because developers making real-time decisions deserve the same visual language as traders making theirs.

The same logic produced Fluent, Lodestar, and SiliconVault. Each started as me staring at a gap nobody else was building toward, then reaching for Claude Code instead of waiting.

The day job is the same instinct at scale. As EVP Product & CPO at Mend.io I am building security for the agentic era, where AI writes the code and verification becomes the bottleneck. The thesis I write about here is the one I run there.

The best tools are opinionated, visually sharp, and built by people who were frustrated enough to stop waiting for someone else to do it.