A five-node k3s homelab applying enterprise platform patterns: three-node HA, Argo CD GitOps, SSO, observability, network policy, and zero open ports.

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Customer Billing Portal Rebuild

Rebuilt a per-login licensed billing portal in-house in three months. Platform cost fell more than 90%.

nextjsazuretypescript

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Enterprise AWS Data Warehouse

Built an AWS data warehouse that gave a major insurer control over its data landscape across 150+ daily extracts and 5 external companies.

awspythonredshift

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infrastructure

CI/CD & Release Automation Modernization

Modernized the SDLC to cut deployment time from a week to four hours, bug to production.

azureazure-pipelinesiac

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I take modernization from the first whiteboard session through production: architecture, teams, and delivery.

Latest insight · August 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Your team does not need more AI-generated code

AI compressed implementation, not thinking. Spend some of the time it saves reading the code together and making sure the software reflects reality.

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July 9, 2026 · 8 min

This portfolio: how far can AI take a production website?

I built this portfolio to test how far AI could carry a real production system: Next.js on Lambda, an ISR pipeline, and a procedural WebGL sky.

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July 8, 2026 · 7 min

AI coding rewards preparation: research before you build

My seven-stage AI-assisted development workflow: expand the idea, read the sources, refine it, run deep research, add expertise, then build.

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infrastructure

June 9, 2026 · 3 min

Enterprise k3s homelab: GitOps, SSO, zero open ports

A five-node k3s homelab applying enterprise platform patterns: three-node HA, Argo CD GitOps, SSO, observability, network policy, and zero open ports.

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payments

Customer Billing Portal Rebuild

Rebuilt a per-login licensed billing portal in-house in three months. Platform cost fell more than 90%.

nextjsazuretypescript

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data

Enterprise AWS Data Warehouse

Built an AWS data warehouse that gave a major insurer control over its data landscape across 150+ daily extracts and 5 external companies.

awspythonredshift

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infrastructure

CI/CD & Release Automation Modernization

Modernized the SDLC to cut deployment time from a week to four hours, bug to production.

azureazure-pipelinesiac

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