About
I'm a software engineer with over a decade of experience, based in Australia, originally from Poland. I've spent most of my career building productivity tools and designing systems; how information gets structured, stored, and retrieved at scale.
Creator of Binder
Binder is a local-first knowledge engine for people, agents, and automation. Designing and building the event-sourcing core, SQLite indexing, LSP integration, CLI, HTTP API, and MCP server. Open source, MIT licensed.
Alongside Binder, I contribute to open-source AI tooling and developer infrastructure.
Background
Seven years at Atlassian across Jira plugin ecosystem, then billing and payments. Head of Engineering at Lyrebird Health, a medical AI startup. Senior Staff Engineer at SEEK. Mostly building developer tools and figuring out how to make complex systems work.
Interests
- Cognitive science - how humans actually store and retrieve knowledge, not how we imagine we do
- Local-first software - your data on your machine, synced when you want
- System design
- History and architecture
Before all that
I built projects throughout high school and college, freelancing websites and web applications along the way. A few of the interesting ones: a Scala/Akka MMO RPG for my engineering thesis, a neural net that learned to aim in Robocode, a Java/OpenGL platformer with a gravity gun, and a contest-winning waste-sorting game. See early work →