Field notes
Occasional writing on agentic engineering, platform architecture, and leading teams through hard technical change.
AI-Native Engineering · July 2026
Four Months to an AI-Native Practice That Worked
Five years inside a Fortune 100 company where AI never got past autocomplete, then four months building an agent-driven practice that genuinely delivered — and the two problems left over that engineering couldn't solve on its own.
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.