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Philosophy

• Give hungry, motivated people what they need - stay out of their way.
• Problem? Ask 'why' 5 times - clarify assumptions.
• SPEED — delivery and processing.
• Question non-trivial solutions - use APIs as intended.
• Infra: make it cheap but available.
• Apply 12 Factor Method.
• Non-dogmatic DDD — and have frequent coffee with domain experts.
• Prefer Red-Green-Refactor at the system-integration level — it produces leaner code than unit-test-driven TDD.
• LLM coding? Ask - given a production problem, can I explain the code to the system owner?

Stuff I did

• Architected multi-tenant anti-fraud platform — rule engine, LLM-assisted decision UI tools, traditional machine learning for risk scoring, and case management, deployed to public cloud and on-premise envs.
• Made polyglot microservices for e-commerce fraud detection — 200–400 tx/sec and 500–1,200 logins/sec — and built geospatial apps for investigators on flagged transactions, deployed on multi-region active-standby infra, with canary release CD pipelines.
• Made weather data processing systems for defense operations — ingesting terabytes/day of satellite imagery and model run products — exposed via OGC-compliant service APIs.
• Led architecture for Business Continuity Planning across multiple teams — backed by hands-on administration of several Kubernetes and database clusters, and various corporate private and public cloud subscriptions.
• Selected for an Architect Expert Group to design and implement SSDLC and release processes for a major Japanese telecom provider.
• Countless projects involving GNSS and traditional land surveying, map making and geodatabase management with ESRI/ArcGIS, and civil drafting with Autodesk CAD.

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