I'm Martin — an engineer and tech enthusiast based in Switzerland. I've spent years building and architecting large-scale distributed systems, and these days my focus is AI engineering: how models are built, evaluated, and run in production — and how they actually work under the hood.
I like understanding systems end to end, from transformer internals to the Kubernetes cluster humming in my homelab, and I learn by building real things and occasionally breaking them.
The work
My work sits where software architecture meets AI — designing and building agentic systems and staying hands-on across the model lifecycle, caring as much about evaluation, reliability and cost as about the demo. I'm a Claude Certified Architect, and I follow the frontier model landscape closely: training dynamics, alignment, evals, and the economics of running models in production.
What I build
Outside of work I build small, privacy-first software and the infrastructure to run it:
- Artifex AI — an AI headshot studio that fine-tunes image models per user, running on Kubernetes.
- Nuxel — this site: static, fast, and tracker-free.
- A homelab — a Talos/Proxmox Kubernetes cluster running 20+ self-hosted services, where I get to operate distributed systems for real.
Outside the terminal
Strength training is a long-running habit — but just one of several. I also kitesurf, and spent a good while in the ring kickboxing. The other thread that never really switches off is markets and personal finance: I'm a committed passive investor in the Benjamin Graham / The Intelligent Investor school — long horizons, low costs, and no stock-picking heroics.
How this site works
This site is statically generated, ships almost no JavaScript, sets no cookies, and uses self-hosted, privacy-friendly analytics — no trackers, no ad networks. When a link is an affiliate link, I say so plainly.
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