AI system design beyond demos
Practical notes on reliability, retrieval, evaluation, and product constraints.
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Thoughts & Writing
Ideas on engineering, technology, and software development.
In Progress
Notes are being shaped into essays
I'm turning working notes on backend architecture, AI systems, and engineering judgment into publishable posts. Until then, the best way to follow along or suggest a topic is to reach out directly.
First drafts in the queue
What scales in backend teams
Patterns that help systems and teams stay understandable under load.
Finance tools as thinking aids
Why calculators are useful when they expose assumptions instead of hiding them.
Topics I plan to write about
Backend ArchitectureDistributed SystemsLLMs & RAGCareer GrowthSystem DesignEngineering LeadershipFIRE & Personal Finance
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I'm most likely to write about questions that come from real engineering decisions, tradeoffs, and systems that have to keep running.