# vevmesteren

> German, Norwegian, Canadian, in that order. Father of four. Montrealer since 2001. Technology leader at the intersection of AI strategy, agentic products, and banking architecture.

Author: Valentin Backofen. German, Norwegian, Canadian, in that order. Father of four. Montrealer since 2001. I build at the intersection of AI strategy, agentic products, and banking architecture. Reading about this stuff isn't enough — building exposes very quickly what is real, what is promising, and what is still mostly PowerPoint.

## Posts

- [Remarkable Morning: A Daily News Digest Pipeline for E-Ink](https://vevmesteren.com/blog/remarkable-morning/): A Python pipeline that fetches 19 news sources across 3 languages, curates via LLM, assembles an EPUB, and uploads to my reMarkable every morning — for under $0.05 per run. (remarkable, python, pipeline, ai)
- [Remarkable Roundtrip: Publishing Obsidian to E-Ink and Pulling Handwriting Back](https://vevmesteren.com/blog/remarkable-roundtrip/): The only open-source tool that does the full round-trip: publish Obsidian to reMarkable as PDF, annotate by hand, pull handwriting back into your vault as text via vision LLM. (remarkable, obsidian, python, ai)

## Full text

- [llms-full.txt](https://vevmesteren.com/llms-full.txt): every post in one file