Work
Case studies in systems I have owned, told through the decisions that shaped them.
Jun 26
Trusting agents with enterprise dataAn execution model for autonomous agents that survives enterprise security review.
How Removing Docker Taught Me That My Tests Were Lying (And So Was I)Removing Docker from your test harness changes OS semantics you never declared, and two passing tests went green because of it.
May 26
Apr 26
Fifteen services, one installDelivering a fifteen-service data platform into customer Kubernetes environments in one step.
When the spec is too big to generate fromA subsystem's OpenAPI spec was so large and self-contradictory that generating a client from it became a runtime liability, so I hand-built the types instead.
Mar 26
The memory no one reviewsThe agent forgets everything between runs, so I let the harness mine each run and write lessons into the next one's instructions, and the hole I did not see is that nothing reviews a rule the machine writes for itself.
Four reviewers, one mindI let an AI agent merge to main when a panel of AI reviewers unanimously approves, and the slow realization was that unanimity from one model is not four opinions, it is one opinion read four times.
Feb 26
What regulation does to architectureYears of healthcare engineering taught me that compliance, taken seriously, is a design input that produces better systems.
Managing engineers who never sleepA year of running AI coding agents turned into an accidental management apparatus, written one rule at a time.
Jan 26
Inducing the schema instead of supplying itThe hard part of turning a pile of documents into a database is not filling the tables, it is deciding what the tables should be, and the rule that made mine work is that a column earns its place only by paying for itself across the whole corpus.
Robots that made burgersDirecting the software for autonomous burger assembly at Momentum Machines.
Dec 25