Articles
Written versions of lessons that repeat
Each article is a distilled view of something I keep re-learning on real systems — the same knowledge base behind the case studies, in essay form.
Privacy by design, not by retrofit
On a healthcare platform, we didn't add security at the end. It shaped the architecture from day one — and that order of operations is the whole point.
ARTICLEStop fixing backend problems in the frontend
The slow screen wasn't a frontend problem. It rarely is. The fix belongs to the layer that owns the problem — and finding that layer is a skill.
ARTICLEGetting LLMs past the demo
Calling an AI API is easy. Making it a reliable production feature is the actual job — and it's ordinary software engineering, applied without exceptions.
ARTICLEWhat changed when I stopped writing only code
My first promotion to lead taught me that shipping more code wasn't the point anymore. The multiplier is systems and people, not heroics.
ARTICLEBuilding frontend for regulated software
Building a bank's frontend from scratch changed my definition of 'production-ready'. In regulated software, consistency and validation aren't polish — they're the product.