The first wallet I made was for myself.
Carried it every day. Noticed what annoyed me. Noticed what aged well. Restitched it. Rebuilt it. Used it for months before anyone else ever saw it.
That way of working did not start with leather. It started years earlier, designing software systems where small decisions quietly become permanent ones. Whether you are writing code or cutting leather, the work is the same. You spend time where it matters. You remove what does not. You accept that reality will do the final editing.
Today, I build products where software and craft meet.
Through Tauruscamp Design, I create wallets, watch straps, and everyday carry pieces using vegetable-tanned leather, traditional tools, and modern machines. Nothing goes into production in a rush. Form and function are refined again and again. The Base Wallet and Grain Wallet began as personal experiments. They became our most loved pieces because they solved real, everyday problems, not because they followed trends.
You can copy a product. You cannot copy the work behind it. A product is not just its shape. It is the process, the design decisions, the way it is made, the way it is shipped, and the way it earns trust over time.
Before this, I spent over twenty-five years building software across startups and global banks, including Deutsche Bank, DBS, and Standard Chartered. Different scale. Different materials. Same discipline.
Starting Tauruscamp taught me what real engineering looks like. I didn't just want to make products. I wanted to make better ways to make them. Out of curiosity, I began designing my own support tools, printing them, testing them, and refining them to improve how I work. This curiosity led me to CNC routers, first as a way to explore woodworking, and then as a way to understand manufacturing itself. I realized these machines are not just tools. They are ways of thinking. They make it possible to build things that could not exist before. The next few years will be about pushing that further, and enjoying every part of the process.
In the end, it is all the same craft. You take responsibility for what you design and live with what you build. Good work simply takes time.