Builder. Inventor. 30 years of not quitting.
In 1989, I started building software tools for CERN — the lab that invented the Web. In 1992, I published one of the first internet software companies in the world. In 1995, I invented carrier-grade mobile email — the first app that let you access and reply to internet email from any phone, anywhere, using voice. I opened commercial internet in Brazil with the owner of TV Bandeirantes. I put the largest classified ads newspaper in the country online before Craigslist left San Francisco.
By 2001, my technology was running inside SFR — France's second-largest mobile carrier — serving 15 million subscribers through a platform I created and sold originally on my own to mobile operators and, as we grew, got distributed by Hewlett-Packard. SFR generated €1.653 billion in revenue on it. They paid €525,000.
When I sued, my own US law firm turned out to represent HP. My French law firm turned out to represent Vivendi — SFR's parent. Two of the world's largest firms, on two continents, both conflicted toward the defendants. Sworn testimony from SFR's own engineer — proving they fabricated their user counts — vanished from the French courts' electronic filing system 48 hours before Vivendi announced the €17 billion sale of SFR.
I documented the entire trail: thesaga.fodor.app — 77 sources, 30 years, five languages.
I'm still building.
Firsts in technology history:
- CommSurfer / Datawave (1992) — One of the first internet software companies. Email on PC networks with fax modems. Archive (1997)
- GraphTools — First client-server dev tool for Mac, with visual design + C codegen. Client: CERN (1989-90)
- SQLTools (1993) — First Windows database admin tool ever created (for any database), for Sybase SQL Server. Shareware on CompuServe when Oracle was still Unix-only
- SetNet Mail (1995) — First carrier-grade mobile app: email by voice over phone. Powered ZAZ — the largest ISP in the world at the time — 400K users across Brazil
- VoxMail / WapMail (1999-2001) — Mobile email platform deployed at SFR, Belgacom, Vodafone Live. First color-screen mobile email. First browser-based email client on a mobile phone
- Primeiramão Online (1995) — Brazil's first and largest classifieds website (50K listings), months before Craigslist expanded
- Freedom Pix (2008) — First SMS-alternative messaging app on iOS. Cross-device picture sharing, direct-to-number messaging — concepts WhatsApp later popularized
- PubNub / Clubhouse (2020) — Scaled real-time infrastructure for Clubhouse's hypergrowth during COVID
What I'm building now:
- SETIP.IO — The platform everything else runs on. DNS, routing, certs, WAF, DDoS protection in one JSON config. 150+ REST endpoints. LXC isolation, WireGuard tunnels, MCP interface for AI agents. I built it because the cloud taught me the wrong lesson — concentration makes things fragile. The internet was designed for independence and resilience, not for handing everything to three vendors. SETIP.IO is how I run my own infrastructure the way the internet was meant to work: distributed, sovereign, and under my control
- Driver.House — Zero-commission rideshare platform. 11,000+ rides completed. AI-powered, direct booking with professional drivers
- NumFree — Free virtual phone numbers. Privacy-first, no SIM required
- UrlyUp — Instant public HTTPS URLs for localhost. WireGuard-encrypted tunnels, zero config
- The Saga — Open-source investigation into the SetNet litigation. 77 sources, AI-powered search across 3 continents, 5 languages
All of these run on SETIP.IO.
Full-stack architect across infrastructure, backend, frontend, mobile, and real-time systems. 30+ years shipping production software — from bare-metal servers and custom reverse proxies to cloud platforms, carrier-grade telecom, and AI-integrated applications.
Every technologist who builds something that matters needs to be ready to fight not just in code, but in courtrooms, boardrooms, and across borders — because the moment your invention becomes infrastructure, the battle moves to territories you never planned for.