Angelo Dini, Switzerland. Head of Product at Divio, co-founder of devguard.

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Hi 👋, I'm Angelo, nice to meet you. I'm Head of Product at Divio. As a kid my grandparents let me take apart their VCRs. I never really stopped.

Take the tapeRead it01Top coverAbout meWho took it apart02Head drum, 62 mmTeach15 articles for students03Main boardProjectsEight, all open source04ChassisHomelabServers at home, 13 articles05Front panelGet in touchNeeds debugging06CassetteWriting77 articles since 2020
Fig. 1 A video recorder. Scroll and it comes apart, and every numbered part takes you somewhere.

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  1. 077Fretfall Player, a Note Highway in Plain JavaScript · 14 min
  2. 076A Desktop App with Tauri 2 · 16 min
  3. 075Godot for Web Developers · 16 min

Writing

77 articles since 2020. Mostly about building for the web, and lately quite a lot about AI tooling. They’re numbered in the order I wrote them, newest on top.

All 77 articles
06Part 06, the cassette. Every tape is a story.

076Develop · · 16 min

A Desktop App with Tauri 2

Building a desktop app with Tauri 2, React and Rust. The command boundary, capabilities, bundling a 200 MB Java engine, licence gates, and the release pipeline.

075Study · · 16 min

Godot for Web Developers

A week into building an RTS in Godot 4 as a web developer. GDScript with static typing, headless tests, and why the simulation must not know the engine exists.

  1. 074AI SkillsDevelop11 min
  2. 073Building AI-Powered Apps with the Vercel AI SDKDevelop14 min
  3. 072Writing Skills for Claude CodeDevelop15 min
  4. 071Docker for Frontend DevelopersDevelop13 min
  5. 070Component-Driven Development with StorybookDevelop13 min

Projects

These are open-source projects I build or help look after, from a CMS I’ve worked on since 2014 to a helpdesk that lives inside your Next.js app.

All of them, in detail
03Part 03, the main board. Each project below is one of its chips.

Who took it apart

I grew up with my grandparents in a small valley in the south of Switzerland, below the Matterhorn. After a mediamatician apprenticeship I moved to Vancouver, learned English properly and did my first two internships there.

I’ve been at Divio, a Swiss platform for running web apps in the cloud, since 2010. I started there as a developer, I’m Head of Product now, and I still write code.

I led the product strategy and the roadmap for Divio's Linux/Docker-based PaaS, from vision and discovery to delivery. Together with the leadership team we set a new "Agency First" direction, and OKRs now give sales, marketing and engineering one shared list of priorities instead of a weekly "who does what" debate.

I taught frontend from 2010, to peers and colleagues at first, and from 2015 to 2025 at HSR (OST) in Rapperswil. In 2025 I co-founded devguard.

List of materials, abridged
ItemPartYears
01Co-Founderdevguard AG2025 – now
02Head of ProductDivio2024 – now
03BSc Computer ScienceFHNW, Brugg2019 – 2022
04InstructorUniversity of Applied Sciences HSR (OST)2015 – 2025
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