About
The story behind Kerplunk
A one-person software studio. Thirteen years of engineering — from Argentina, to Sydney, to Berlin, and back.
Background
Software, from the start. Started as a .NET developer in Argentina, then Java — first at Despegar, then a string of backend roles that led to Sydney, as backend lead at FreightExchange, a logistics platform. Different stacks, same job: build things that work.
Seven years in Berlin. Four companies, each one deeper into the stack. Senior engineer, then engineering manager at Delivery Hero — grew a team from two to eight, shipping payment systems that ran over a million requests a day across 45 countries. Staff engineer at Gorillas through its fastest growth, then Head of Backend at Atem, architecting a blockchain-backed system with a two-person team. Most recently, core search engineer at Staffbase, running a multi-tenant Elasticsearch platform across millions of documents.
Kerplunk, today. Kerplunk started when I came back to Argentina. It's a software studio: platforms like Foto Bayo and Foto Escurra, AI integration, and cc+, an open source tool for orchestrating AI coding agents — the next chapter after thirteen years of engineering.
Philosophy
What that means in practice
You Talk to the Person Doing the Work
No account managers, no handoffs. The person on the call is the person writing the code.
Each Piece Fits Your Business
No template forced onto your project. The architecture, the data model, the way it's built — all of it fits how you actually work.
Concept First, Then Execution
Every feature has a reason. Every screen exists because it needs to — not because a template shipped with it.
Relationships, Not Transactions
The best projects come from people who trust each other. I'd rather work with the same clients for years than take one-off gigs — understanding a business deeply beats starting from scratch every time.
Where
Based in Villa La Angostura, in the Patagonian Andes — home since leaving Berlin. Most projects run entirely remote; distance hasn't been a problem yet.