• Technical Guidance
• Software Architecture
• Leadership

I help you decide what to build next, set priorities, and plan around technical dependencies based on product requirements. I supplement and expand the architecture across existing systems, weighing maintenance, reliability, and cost to strike a viable balance. Engineering is a social activity: technical decisions depend on shared context, clear responsibilities, and room to raise concerns. I help teams build that understanding through candid conversation and writing. A short proposal or decision note helps individuals sort out their thinking and gives the team something concrete to question and refine.

• UX
• Security
• Performance Optimization

Development spans UX, backend services (from traditional architectures to fully distributed systems), and storage, from relational databases to content-addressable systems. Data processing and AI capabilities range from conventional approaches to LLMs. API design evolves with your requirements and integrates with your existing authentication and security infrastructure. Documentation accompanies the work from initial proposal to user guidance, using a single-source approach wherever practical. Performance work starts with measurement: measure first, measure twice, identify a bottleneck, make targeted changes, and measure again until latency and scale requirements are met.

• Productized AI
• Distributed Systems
• Applied Cryptography
• Embedded Systems
• Rust
• Prototypes to Production

Putting AI into production involves model selection, integration, evaluation, and ongoing operation. At scale, all systems become distributed. With uptime needs come additional requirements that need to be considered and addressed deliberately in system design. My applied cryptography work uses established primitives and protocols, with attention to integration, key management, and risk management. Embedded projects involve hardware limits, connectivity and integration as well as knowing enough about the physical surroundings involved - from flight domain to chemical processes. My systems programming language of choice is Rust; I've completed projects of all sizes with it since 2016, ranging from hands-on teaching sessions and greenfield projects to gradual migration of existing codebases along seams of concern. I provide guidance and hands-on contribution from the first version through to production.