Technical writeups

How the systems work.

Architecture, tradeoffs, and lessons from the systems I build: production platforms, AI tooling, and the infrastructure around them.

VAMOS compensation investigation screen showing a synthetic advisor quarter with four collapsed transactions.

July 2026 · 6 min read

VAMOS: One Button, Two Hundred Emails

Our quarterly compensation reconciliation used to end with a macro opening two hundred emails. Now it ends with one button, and the interesting part is everything that made the finance team comfortable pressing it.

platform engineering
internal tools
data

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Armada control panel listing synthetic internal applications and their status.

July 2026 · 8 min read

Armada: Make the Safe Path the Easy Path

People are going to build internal apps with AI whether the technology team provides a path or not. Armada is a governed platform designed to make the safe path the easy one.

platform engineering
AI
internal tools

July 2026 · 8 min read

Delegate the Typing, Never the Attention

I built CARL to take a Jira story through implementation and review to a finished pull request. It worked. It also showed me why AI changes how engineers build software without transferring technical ownership to someone else.

AI
agents
engineering