Robert Grzazek

I'm a software engineer who doesn't like waste. Not shortcuts — waste. There's a difference.

I spent nearly a decade in transport logistics where getting it wrong meant real consequences. You learn to think clearly about what actually matters. Call ahead for dinner, start the microwave before you refuel, have a shower if you've got five minutes. But restart your safety check from the beginning if someone breaks your concentration. Climb the ladder and look in the tank no matter how tired you are.

I brought that into software. I'll question any process that exists out of habit, any meeting that could be an email, any abstraction that earns nothing. But I won't cut corners on the parts that matter — the data has to be right, the edge case has to be handled, the thing has to actually work.

I work in post-trade finance now — the part that happens after a trader clicks buy, before the money actually moves. If it breaks, it's a bad day for everyone. That suits me.