Vilnius, last tuesday
Bruno Domingues
Forward Deployed Engineer · Entrepreneur · Investor · Author
I’m a Forward Deployed Engineer — twenty-eight years of shipping got me here: freelance IT in the late nineties, the dot-com bubble in Holland, fund management software in London, a social CRM I learned the hard way from (the long version became my SaaS book for developers), and now embedding with client teams on AI infrastructure and agentic workflows. Currently running Multiuniversal from Vilnius.
overlap in messy ways ↘
A rough map. Dates are generous. Some years are missing on purpose.
Started out as a freelancer — building custom computers and sorting out IT for local business owners. Nothing fancy, just hands-on.
— a LOT of cable tiesMoved into web development. The internet was still pretty wild and I loved it.
— table, tables everywherePacked up and went to live in Holland, working at a dotcom agency right in the middle of the bubble. Good timing.
— and then, the crashMoved to London to work at a fund management software company. At the same time set up my first company — web development, online advertising, web hosting. Kept myself busy.
— sleep was optionalShifted focus to online advertising and started building my first SaaS — a social media CRM. Learned a lot the hard way.
— lesson: listen to usersNow working forward-deployed — embedding directly with client teams to design, build, and ship AI infrastructure and agentic systems.
— still feels like 1999Two books, both written at the table.
Honestly, with AI around now I think these kinds of books matter less — if you want to learn something you can just ask. But they were useful to write.
From Code to Recurring Revenue
Blueprint to SaaS Development
My first time writing with AI. I wanted something I’d actually buy myself — a practical guide for building a SaaS, written from the developer’s seat. The process taught me a lot, including the value of having a dedicated system for tracking feature requests.
Productivity Powerhouse
Proven Strategies for Peak Performance
I wanted to pull together all the different productivity strategies I’d come across into one place — something I could actually refer back to. Same idea as the first book: write what I’d want to read.