
Becoming The Mr. CTO - E28: Making It Real
After countless hours in CAD, 3D, and SolidWorks, it was finally time to make things real. I fired up the
I’ve decided to start sharing a full series of stories about how I became The Mr. CTO - not the brand, not the title, but the human path behind it. It wasn’t linear. It wasn’t clean. There were beautiful moments, and there were some very hard ones too. I’ve carried these stories with me for years, and now feels like the right time to put them out there.
After countless hours in CAD, 3D, and SolidWorks, it was finally time to make things real. I fired up the
After a few months in the UAE, my colleague and friend had to return to Croatia. It happened during the
One of the key components of the ventilator was the controller and communication board. This was our first concept, so
After testing our early ventilator concept, we made the call - we would go with a turbine-based design. But now
After that call, we started building a ventilator. There wasn’t time for hesitation. We jumped straight into concepts. Should
By now, it was official. The disease was no longer just news. It was real, and it was global. We
I still remember the taste of that birthday cake. It was just me, Robert, and a few friends joining over
This was our first office in Masdar. It was also our apartment. Mine and Robert’s workspace, living space, lab,
It had been a few weeks since our last visit to Abu Dhabi. We had left the bike behind, came
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