Authors

Leo Gaggl

Leo Gaggl

I’ve always been driven to build and fix. Growing up on a family farm in Austria, that meant learning to weld at eight to repair broken equipment. My first step into technology was funded by selling cherries on the roadside to buy a programmable calculator. That thread—using whatever tools are at hand to solve the immediate challenge—runs through my entire life. After moving to Australia in the mid-90s, I spent two decades building digital infrastructure: co-founding early database-driven web companies and later designing large-scale educational technology. But over time, I felt a growing disconnect between the abstract world of the cloud and the values I learned on the farm—a respect for natural cycles, the resilience of community, and a deep connection to the land.