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I build production software, open source projects, and explain how they work.

Engineering Manager & Backend Engineer — I write about systems architecture, deterministic AI pipelines, and lessons from shipping at scale.

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Shorts Generator

16-stage deterministic pipeline that turns long-form video into publishable short clips with SQLite checkpointing.

PythonSQLiteFFmpeg

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Skeleton Parallel

Deterministic agentic coding orchestrator with bounded retries, checkpoint rollback, and quality gates.

TypeScriptNode.js

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MD-AME

Autonomous media engine for YouTube production — database-backed state machines and deterministic pipelines.

GoPostgreSQL

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FEATURED

Concept · 19 min read · Intermediate

Four Properties of Generative AI: A Practical Framework for Calibrated Trust

A practical model for understanding next-token prediction, knowledge, working memory, and steerability—and choosing the right controls for reliable AI-assisted work.

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Aug 25, 2026

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Backend Engineering

API design, idempotency, and production reliability patterns.

Scale and reliability

Distributed Systems

State machines, orchestration, and fault-tolerant workflows.

Production AI

AI Systems

Guardrails, coherence, and deterministic agent pipelines.

From the field

Payments & Fintech

Payment gateways, SNAP banking APIs, and compliance at scale.

Case Studies

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System

Human Atlas: Offline Research Workspace Architecture

How Human Atlas ships a 12 MB standalone HTML atlas with embedded occupation packs, lazy-loaded society data, SHA-256 validation, and field-level evidence guardrails.

Aug 20, 2026

System

Delivery Foundry: Governed Control Plane for AI Software Delivery

Architecture of a durable, resumable, evidence-verified control plane where a kernel owns state and side effects while a Plan Execution Coordinator proposes work under explicit policy envelopes.

Jul 21, 2026

System