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Short, practical artifacts that demonstrate how I think.

2026-07 · Systems

Production Systems Case Study: Tradeoffs, Reliability, and Testing

Ledgic — AI-powered personal finance platform

How I approach building maintainable systems: constraints, tradeoffs, observability, and what I’d improve next.

ReactNode/ExpressMongoDBAnthropic Claude APIFinancial data visualizationVercel
  • What problem we solved and what success looked like
  • Key tradeoffs (simplicity vs flexibility vs performance)
  • Testing approach and failure modes
  • Operational readiness checklist

2026-07 · Perspective

Understand the People and the Problem

Why the best software comes from understanding the people you're building for, the problem under their request, and the business constraints around it.

2026-06 · Tutorial

Snowflake, Under the Hood: Cost, Queries, and What AI Changes

A practitioner's walkthrough of the mechanics that actually control Snowflake cost and performance: warehouse tuning, query pruning, the ACCOUNT_USAGE loop, and how the platform's new AI tooling changes who can do this work.