Writing & Talks

A local-first project-state layer in SQLite, with claims that have heartbeats and evidence captured by hooks. Here's how it was built and which trade-offs I'm still living with.

Workflow orchestration alone won't save you. The thing that breaks first when you run real multi-agent work is the state — and almost nobody is building that layer.

A 10-package monorepo, 27 MCP tools, checkpoint-based durability, and three sandbox types. The full blueprint for Baara Next.

Agent SDKs give you tools and reasoning. They don't give you queues, checkpoints, or crash recovery. That gap is where your intent dies.

How I went from managing AI agent context windows by hand to building an orchestration system that lets me describe what I want and walk away.

What I learned building specialized agent archetypes that coordinate through file ownership, wave execution, and structured handoffs.

After twenty years building cloud platforms, here's what I've learned about bridging into AI infrastructure, and which skills matter more than you'd expect.

How a structured competitive analysis of my own code convinced me that a clean-room rewrite was the right call, and what I learned building Nexus.

Why the blueprint document I wrote for our AWS organization might be the highest-leverage thing I shipped that year.

The only sustainable scaling strategy is multiplying competent decision-makers. Here's how I think about mentorship as a senior IC.

Why treating your internal platform like a product changes how infrastructure teams operate, and how golden-path solutions reduce cognitive load.

Why periodically questioning inherited infrastructure decisions matters, illustrated through an AWS Transit Gateway to VPC peering migration.

Why staying hands-on at the principal engineer level creates better outcomes for your team, your architecture, and your credibility.

A taxonomy of region types, spec-driven provisioning, and phased orchestration for predictable multi-region expansion.