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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.

🎯 Current Focus

  • 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

🌐 Geo-Arbitrage & Residency

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.

🌍 Personal Brand

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

💻 Engineering Expertise

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

🏛️ Studio

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

🚀 Currently Building

  • 🍎 cadence — A native macOS menu-bar app to visualize, edit, monitor, and track the scheduled jobs on your Mac · Swift
  • 🍎 dewey — Your wiki's librarian, on the desktop. · Swift
  • 🦀 nworth — Self-hosted personal portfolio tracker with first-class support for AI agents. · Docker Rust
  • 🦀 zskills — A declarative package manager for agentic coding CLIs — skills, plugins, and MCP servers managed from a single TOML manifest. · Rust

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🛠️ Tech Stack

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Terraform Go Rust Docker

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💬 Philosophy

"Build resilient systems. Earn resilient freedom."

About

Personal site of zot24 — software engineer, founder, seed investor. The zot24.com website.

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