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Engineering Leader | Cloud Infrastructure Architect | Founder & Seed Investor
24 years as a software engineer, including 10 years building cloud platforms and scalable infrastructure. Entrepreneur and seed investor, currently based in Paraguay after years of traveling globally.
- Building products, writing, and sharing what I’m learning
- Advising founders and teams on platform engineering and delivery
- Investing (including crypto) and optimizing for long-term optionality and freedom
Walked the path from W-2 in San Francisco to building from Paraguay. Happy to compare notes with engineers and founders optimizing for the same:
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay residency — cheap, fast, tax-friendly LATAM base
- 🏗️ Business structure — entity choice for a remote / global engineer
- 💼 Personal finance & geo-arbitrage — playing the long game across jurisdictions
Not a sales pitch — just open conversations. Email me below.
My journey is built around a few core values:
- 🌍 Traveling & Geo‑arbitrage — Location independence and leverage
- 💰 Investing & Financial Independence — Playing the long game
- 🚀 Entrepreneurship — Build, learn, iterate
- 🗽 Independence & Sovereignty — Ownership of time and decisions
- 🕊️ Freedom — The point of the whole exercise
With 24 years of experience as a software engineer (including 10 building cloud platforms), I specialize in:
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Platform Engineering: Reliability, cost, developer experience
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos
- CI/CD: Build systems, pipelines, release automation
- Languages: Go, Python, PHP, Rust
I run Motty — a boutique software studio, est. 2012. Custom application development (TypeScript, Rust, Go), cloud and infrastructure engineering (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP), self-hosted observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana), and technical consulting. One or two engagements at a time, often multi-year exclusive.
→ motty.io
- 🦀 zskills — Declarative package manager for agentic coding CLIs (Claude Code plugins, Agent Skills, MCP). Rust.
- 📈 nworth — Self-hosted personal portfolio tracker with first-class AI agent support. Rust · Axum · SQLite.
→ live status & more on zot24.com
"Build resilient systems. Earn resilient freedom."