Most of this site is the pitch. This section is the evidence. The rest of the site tells you how I work and what I believe about building with AI. These pages show the actual engineering — real code, real architecture decisions, real tradeoffs, from production systems — so you can evaluate the work directly instead of taking my word for it.
If you're deciding whether to hire an independent engineer, this is what "independent engineer" cashes out to.
- REST API Architecture — the nine-layer template I generate for every backend entity, walked through against a real
Userentity in production Java/Spring Boot code. - RAG Design — how a clinical trial retrieval system was actually designed: the build decisions, the chunking strategy, where it deviated from textbook RAG, and why.
- Paradox of AI and Coding — a more personal one: how using AI daily makes me a better engineer and a worse one at the same time, and what that costs in a client meeting or an interview.
- Important but Ignored Design Patterns — everyone knows Builder and Singleton. I went looking for eleven other Gang of Four patterns in my own production code — six turned up doing real work, and the absences turned out to be just as worth reporting.
Questions
If something here raises a question about how I'd approach your system, that's the right question to ask before hiring me, not after.