Built While Employed
I’ve spent 23 years building systems.
The most important one wasn't software.
It was ownership.
Throughout my engineering career, I built and exited four bootstrapped businesses while remaining employed full-time by choice.
Not venture-backed startups.
Not scale-at-all-costs companies.
Small, profitable, controlled businesses designed to fit real life.
Four Exits. Built Alongside a Career.
Across software and service models, I validated, built, and sold businesses without external funding. Examples include:
myHealthy Life | eHealth SaaS
Validated the concept and sold the startup for €100k prior to full production.
Student Relocation | Service Business
Scaled to 40+ clients and hired a team while working full-time. Sold to my co-founder.
Alwan | Hospitality SaaS
Reservation platform scaled to 12 locations across Syria. Sold before relocating to Prague.
Saydaliti | Pharmacy Software
Inventory management desktop app. Sold 20+ licenses and exited profitably.
AhojShisha | Scrappy Service
A seasonal delivery experiment that made €10k just to test a market concept.
Tyvyty | Current Project
Building a platform to simplify high-performance team building for modern tech leads.
The Discipline of No-Go
Real validation is not only knowing when to start.
It is knowing when to stop.
The COVID Pivot (Azademia & DobryDum)
I launched a coding academy and a physical anticafé in Prague. When the 2020 lockdowns hit, I learned a critical lesson in unsustainable overhead and risk management—knowledge I now use to protect my clients.
The "SirYes" Kill-Switch
I’ve validated multiple micro-services that technically worked but failed the "Lifestyle Business" criteria. I killed these projects early to avoid wasting months on ideas with poor unit economics.
That experience reinforced my core principle:
Reduce risk before scaling effort.
Innovation Validation is my day job.
Today, I work as a Principal Engineer in Innovation Validation.
My role is to evaluate ideas before they become costly commitments.
I operate at the intersection of risk, engineering, trading, and decision-making.
The same framework applies here.
We do not build first.
We validate first.
Why This Matters For You
If you are a senior software engineer, you do not need motivation.
You need structure.
You need a controlled path to ownership that fits your responsibilities.
That is what I built for myself.
That is what I now help others build.
Ready to build income you actually own?
If you’re a senior engineer ready to move from overthinking to validated execution, let’s define your lowest-risk path to your first high-value client.