About Bold Tech

At Bold Tech, we are developers at heart - our goal is to build great internal apps for your teams quickly, without compromising on quality or functionality.

Meet the Bold Tech crew

At Bold Tech, we’re a Retool-first agency with over 50,000 hours of development dedicated to building powerful internal tools. Since 2020, we’ve launched hundreds of apps, mastering Retool from every angle
Joey Karczewski
Founder & CEO

Joey was one of the first in the Retool Developers Network and has been developing internal tools for small, medium, and enterprise companies for 5+ years.

Sophie Becker
Content

Sophie runs content at Bold Tech, writing tutorials and posts for our blog. She particularly loves writing about UI and design in internal tools and is always ready to discuss whitespace with any of the team willing to listen.

Stefan Cvrkotic
Senior Engineer

Stefan has worked with Retool for 7+ years and is one of its biggest fans. He specializes in building secure, large-scale systems for enterprise companies and is the go-to for creative Retool hacks that use all the components you wouldn’t expect.

David Daugherty
Developer

David has been building internal tools on Retool since 2020, before which he worked as a business intelligence analyst. He loves to get into the business logic of complex operations and how these processes translate into efficient internal tools.

Mitchel Smith
Developer

Before coming to internal tools, Mitchel completed a Master’s of Computer Science and spent many years developing mobile applications. He’s passionate about building cool stuff but also about teaching - he’s the top educator on our team.

Milan Kalem
Developer

Milan has 8+ years of experience in the IT industry as a sales engineer and market analyst, specializing in analysis on platforms such as Tableau, Salesforce & Hubspot. He loves building unexpected apps in Retool and testing its boundaries.

Tobias Ohlsson
Developer

Tobias specialized in machine learning for his Master's in Computer Science and has previously worked as a full-stack developer at a deep tech startup. Tobias puts the science in computer science and is obsessed with the theory behind software engineering.

Igor Moreira
Developer

Igor has been passionate about technology since childhood, starting with building computers at an early age. With extensive experience in web development, Igor now specializes in internal tools, focusing on developer infrastructure, meshes, containers, deployment, and source control. In his free time, he enjoys street and landscape photography, classic films, and creating music and soundtracks.

Kelly Plathe
Administration

Kelly runs administration at Bold Tech and supports our clients and team with operational work. She’s always keeping us organized!

Omotoke Okeyemi
Developer

Omotoke holds a degree in Computer Engineering and has four years of experience in frontend development. She also has three years of experience developing internal tools, particularly working with Retool and other developer tools.

Marcus Santos
DevOps Engineer

Marcus specializes in DevOps and supports our Enterprise clients to ensure they are up and running smoothly with their self-hosted deployments. He’s a Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform whizz.

Amana Moore
Content & Marketing

Amana has a degree in French and has a background in education and media. She supports the content team at Bold Tech with writing & editing articles, sales and marketing.

We’re looking for
talented people, always.

We’re looking fortalented people, always.

Got a talent for building internal tools? Skilled with Retool or similar tools and looking to join a team of dedicated developers working on top-tier clients? Reach out today.

A Picture of the Bold Tech team in Lisbon.

Engineering

Developer

We’re looking for experienced full-stack developers to join our team of internal tool builders.

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Content

Technical writer - internal tools

We’re looking for platform specialists and keen writers to contribute to our internal tools blog and share their knowledge.

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Latest writings

The latest news, technologies, and resources from our team.

Five years of building boldly with Retool

To celebrate our five year anniversary on Retool and the launching of the Agency program, we reflect on five years of building on Retool, how much the platform has changed and how far we've come.

UI tips: Creating dropdown actions in Retool

In this tutorial we show you a great UI tip in Retool - using table buttons to set up dropdown actions that save space in your apps.

Advanced permissions in Retool: The Fundamentals (Retool for Enterprises)

Permissioning for large-scale deployments can be complex, so in this article we break down the fundamentals of how Permissions work in Retool, and share some essential tips.