Successful projects are beautiful, layered pearls. Like all pearls, they are often created in response to a single irritant. This is his story.
In the beginning...
Hi, my name is Igor, formally Leopoldo Igor Raffaele.
I was born in Napoli and raised between Nigeria, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. I now live in the United States.
My earliest memories are of taking things apart just to understand how they worked, putting them back together, and explaining to anyone who'd listened what I had discovered. This impulse never left me.
Over the decades, the things I dismantled became more complex and expensive, but the curiosity stayed the same. Understanding, improving, and communicating complexity became the thread through everything I've done.
Zenith and Nadir
I started in video games, first in publishing, then advertising, and eventually leading vertically integrated teams that became InterWave Studios, developers of the award-winning Nuclear Dawn.
It was brilliant, chaotic, and complex. Very instructive.
From the on, I moved into even larger, more complex systems, such as Dephion Technologies, where I served as COO, leading 120 people on a groundbreaking health platform that tried to do everything, everywhere, for everyone.
We succeeded, the system worked and performed as designed. But the company didn't survive. After Dephion's bankruptcy, I face my own collapse: health issues that forced me into prolonged stillness after decades of relentless progress.
I was a hard fall that made everything clear.
Rebirth
When I rejoined the world of the living, my mindset had changed drastically. I took some real time off for the first time since I was a toddler, and went back to breaking things and telling their story.
Mundane is born from that passion, from that instinct to explore, understand, and share.
With nearly three decades of experience on the actual cutting edge of technology, I can bring the value of real world success, and failure, to every engagement.
From Byzantine software architectures to practical LLM AI automations, Mundane exists to turn ambitious ideas into working systems without the costly detours because I've been there, repeatedly.
So, what are we building today?