Case studies
Architecting Systems That Actually Run Your Business
I design the architecture and lead the team. I'm in from the first whiteboard session through production. What ships has to work under load, under scrutiny, and over time. I've sat in enough executive briefings and engineering reviews to align the business from top to bottom.
A selection of real projects I led. The details are confidential, but I can walk you through the technical decisions in a conversation. Feel free to reach out!
Each write-up covers the problem, the decisions, and the result.
payments
Customer Billing Portal Rebuild
Rebuilt a per-login licensed billing portal in-house in three months. Platform cost fell more than 90%.
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.
infrastructure
CI/CD & Release Automation Modernization
Modernized the SDLC to cut deployment time from a week to four hours, bug to production.
infrastructure
In-House Cloud Integration Platform
Turned an expensive SaaS purchase into board approval for an eight-person in-house cloud integration platform build.
reporting
Automated IFRS 17 Reporting Platform
Built an automated reporting pipeline that reduced month-close IFRS 17 reporting from a manual month-long process to an auditable run under 15 minutes.
payments
Claims Payment Workflow Modernization
Rebuilt a high-risk claims payment workflow that had been failing monthly and costing millions in outage impact.
infrastructure
Million-Student Enrollment Processing Pipeline
Rebuilt the student enrollment pipeline to remove a week-long manual delay for 1M+ students.
payments
Self-Service Billing & Payment System
Delivered a self-service billing update flow for a 50k-member insurance program in three weeks, moving routine card changes out of the call center.
reporting
Governed Tableau BI Platform
Created a governed BI platform so business teams could access warehouse data directly.
How I work
- Ownership
- I find where the breakdown is — strategy, process, or code — and fix it.
- Scale
- I build for where the business is going, not where it is.
- Security
- I design security from an attacker's point of view.
- Automation
- I build systems that replace entire manual workflows, not just individual tasks.
- Alignment
- I make sure what engineering builds is what the business asked for.
How to read these
Each case study is work I led and helped build. The clients are confidential, so identifying details stay out. The decisions and results are real. If one maps to a problem you have, I can walk you through it, or build something similar for you.