The Stage
A decade in front of audiences and clients — three languages, global stages, luxury brands. Where I learned that a launch is only as good as the operation behind it.
The Turn
One decision changed the trajectory: I stepped off the stage to provide for my family.
2019 ~ 2022
For three years I ran the family's fried-chicken shop — eight-plus hours a day of physical labor, plus all the marketing, done with my own hands for my family. We grew it to 2.5× monthly revenue.
That kitchen is why I trust software only after it survives a dinner rush — and it became the seed of KitchenFlow. The stage had taught me to run an operation; the counter taught me to build one.
The Regrowth
At forty, I started over in a field that owed me nothing — and made it mine. End-to-end engineer, high-end solopreneur: I design, build, ship and run the whole thing.
My own product: ordering, inventory and an AI back-office for restaurants — 4 frontends and one API, designed and built solo (FastAPI · React Native · RAG). Born from running a restaurant myself.
Selected engineering work
Full Bloom
David vs Goliath
Every unfair fight life could hand me, I took — and I got back up. This is the one where the whole trajectory converged.
Interpreter, marketer, restaurateur, engineer — no single chapter could have won what came next. All of them, together, did. A lifetime of being underestimated turned out to be the preparation.
I took Hertz to small-claims court on my own, in a second language — and I won.— Judgment for the plaintiff. A global giant, answered by one person who refused to let an injustice slide.
I know how it feels to be worn down by systems that count on you giving up. I didn't — and I have the record to prove it. That proof shouldn't stay mine alone.
We are stronger than the systems that bet on our silence — and together, we win.