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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.

6 min read
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.

5 min read
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.

5 min read