Field notes
Occasional writing on agentic engineering, platform architecture, and leading teams through hard technical change.
AI-Native Engineering · July 2026
Building an Agentic Development Workflow That Ships
What it actually takes to get Claude Code, spec-driven development, and MCP integrations to move ideas to production without losing the humans in the loop.
Platform Engineering · March 2025
Scaling an OAuth Platform to 60,000 Concurrent Requests
Notes from rebuilding the authentication tier behind every Ally customer-facing and server-to-server API, and cutting p95 latency 5x in the process.
Engineering Leadership · November 2023
What I Learned Leading Teams Through Legacy Rewrites
On taking over a mobile-pay backend that was missing its SLOs, and the shared-services platform that came after it.