Executive & Personal Assistance
High-touch support for executives, founders, and high-net-worth individuals — complex calendars and travel, household and estate coordination, and the thousand quiet details that keep a busy life running smoothly.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
A small studio for
discreet, exceptional work.
Melkar is a husband-and-wife practice pairing fifteen years of executive & personal assistance with nearly three decades of software engineering — delivered with the discretion and precision our clients expect.
What we do
Two practices, one standard.
Software Engineering & Strategy
Senior, hands-on engineering and technical leadership — from architecture and contract development to building and shipping products end to end, as both an engineer and a founder.
What we’re building
Products from the studio.
Alongside our client work, we design and ship our own software. Here’s what we’re building now — with more to come.
PocSomm
iOS & Android · BetaYour pocket sommelier.
Snap a restaurant wine list or a bottle label and PocSomm instantly returns retail prices, critic ratings, tasting notes, and food pairings — an AI sommelier that runs entirely on your device, with no account required.
Visit pocsomm.com →Farled
Open source · CLISafe routing for AI-assisted engineering.
Farled watches the branches, worktrees, and repositories where humans and AI agents work in parallel, flagging overlapping edits at the symbol and line level before they become merge conflicts. It safely routes production signals to agents, keeps a record of shipped work, and stays advisory throughout — never locking a file or blocking a write.
Visit farled.dev →The team
The two people behind Melkar.
Åsa MårtenssonCEO
Executive & Personal Assistant · 15+ years
Åsa supports executives and high-net-worth individuals with rare discretion and an instinct for getting things right. Her background spans the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, Viking Global Investors, and the trading floors of Carnegie and SEB — an unusually broad foundation for a role built on trust, organization, and grace under pressure.
LinkedIn →Henrik EngströmCTO
Principal Engineer · Founder · 28 years
Henrik has spent nearly three decades building software — as a principal engineer, technical leader, and founder. He works with clients as a contractor on architecture and delivery, and builds his own products, moving fluently between deep technical work and the strategy that surrounds it.
LinkedIn →Contact
Let’s talk.
For new engagements or a quiet conversation about how we can help, reach out directly.
Åsa Mårtensson
asa@melkarllc.com
Henrik Engström
henrik@melkarllc.com