Dima Barabash

I'm a product engineer based in Lisbon. I care about software craftsmanship: products that are pleasant to work with for engineers and users alike, because without a good developer experience, the user experience ends up mediocre too.

For more than 13 years I've written code and shipped products across the full stack, from the browser down to the database, whichever tools the problem asks for.

These days I'm building my own products. My current focus is nod, an AI notepad that listens locally on your Mac — no meeting bots — and turns every conversation into searchable memory: ask what was decided or promised and get the answer instantly.

Before nod I built Brifly, a small, remote-first tool for async communication, now paused while I go deep on nod.

I've worked as a consultant and contractor from MMcKinsey (contracting on internal tooling) to a handful of YYC-backed startups, owning features end-to-end at the earliest, messiest stages, usually without much PM overhead to hide behind. The full history is in my CV.

I write notes and experiments here, mostly about the craft of building software, realtime and collaborative interfaces, and whatever I'm currently obsessed with.

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