Palate Intelligence with Dramfly

Welcome back to Data and Drams. Today, I’m joined by Senior Product Designer Stergios and Enterprise Architect Kostas, the duo behind Caskbase; the indie studio creating digital tools born out of genuine passion, and the creators of the mobile tasting app, Dramfly.

With over two decades of combined experience across enterprise tech, fintech, healthcare, and luxury automotive, the two met more than a decade ago bonding over a shared love of drams and regular trips to whisky festivals.

Stergios, brings over twelve years of research-led product design leadership, shaping human-centered experiences for millions of users at places like Barclays and Standard Life, as well as crafting luxury digital journeys for high-end automotive brands.

Kostas, brings over 20 years of commercial software experience. Having led technical strategy for complex systems, ETL pipelines, and high-performance applications, he specialises in building robust, domain-driven architectures.

We spoke about their whisky origins and how swapping big enterprise environments for startup agility forced them to prioritise rapid experimentation, including how discovering dead zones in underground Scottish pubs led them to iterate the app and create an offline mode.

We also walked through Dramfly’s core user journey, from logging dram profiles to mapping flavour radars and dove deep into Kostas’s technical choices, from immutable snapshots to their .NET and Azure stack and (as Kostas puts it “an army of little AI agents). Plus, we covered MVP scope, GDPR compliance, and their future ambitions for community recommendations.

So pull up a chair, pour yourself a drink, and join Stergios, Kostas, and me for Data and Drams.

Check out Dramfly here - https://www.dramfly.com/

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