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The decisions behind the products I build and run — what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently.

How to Become a Self Taught Senior Engineer in 4 Years
Becoming a self taught senior engineer isn't about years of experience; it's about the systems you architect and the artifacts you ship. Here is the 4-year arc.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A technical deep dive into building an AI story app. Learn the architecture, agentic engineering patterns, and hard lessons from shipping Inky in a multi-product studio.

The Integrated Career Change Into Tech: Systems Over Syntax
Stop treating your career change into tech as a reset. Learn how to integrate your previous experience into a systems-first approach to building software.

How to Become a Self Taught Senior Engineer in Four Years
Stop chasing frameworks. Learn how to transition from writing code to architecting systems as a self taught senior engineer using an agentic approach.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A look inside the architecture of Inky. I’m sharing how I’m building an AI story app using agentic engineering and a multi-product studio mindset.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A look at the systems architecture behind Inky. I’m sharing how I’m building an AI story app using agentic engineering and a multi-product studio model.

Building the Stack: A Realist’s Guide to Career Change into Tech
Stop treating your career change into tech as a pivot. It’s an accumulation of systems. Learn how to leverage your non-CS background to ship real products today.

How to Become a Self Taught Senior Engineer in Four Years
Stop chasing frameworks and start building systems. This is the 4-year blueprint for the self taught senior engineer who wants to ship real products.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A look inside the architecture of Inky, a multi-agent storytelling system. No hype, just the systems and lessons learned from shipping agentic engineering.

Porting Your Operating System: A Career Change into Tech
Stop treating your career change into tech as a reset. Learn how to port your existing experience in music, military, or operations into a technical operating system that ships.

Building an AI Story App: Systems Over Prompts
A direct look at the systems and agentic engineering behind Inky. Learn the architecture of building an ai story app without the hype.

The Operator’s Guide to a Career Change into Tech
Stop treating your career change into tech as a reset. Learn how to leverage your non-CS background—from military logistics to music—to build a durable systems-first career.

The 4-Year Arc to Self Taught Senior Engineer
A direct look at the compounding mechanics required to move from self-taught beginner to senior engineer in four years by focusing on systems over syntax.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A look inside the architecture of Inky. Learned the hard way: building an AI story app requires more than a prompt—it requires a system of agentic engineering.

Porting Your Operating System: A Career Change Into Tech
Stop viewing a career change into tech as a reset. It is a system migration. Learn how to port your skills from music, military, or ops into software.

The 4-Year Arc: Building a Self Taught Senior Engineer Career
Moving from self-taught to senior engineer in four years is about compounding systems, not collecting frameworks. Here is the blueprint for shipping at scale.

Building an AI Story App: Architecture and Lessons from Inky
A look inside the architecture of Inky, a multi-agent storytelling system. No hype, just the systems and lessons learned from shipping an AI-native product.

Career Change into Tech: Building on Existing Systems
Stop treating your background as a liability. A career change into tech is about translating your existing operating system into software. Here is how to ship.

How to Become a Self Taught Senior Engineer in Four Years
Forget the 10,000-hour rule. Seniority is about system ownership and pattern recognition. Here is the 4-year arc from self-taught to senior engineer.

Building an AI Story App: Systems Over Prompts
Most AI apps are thin wrappers. Building an AI story app like Inky requires a robust system of agents and state management. Here is how I architected the system.

Building the System: A Career Change into Tech Without the Hype
Forget the bootcamp hype. A career change into tech is about translating your existing operating system into code and shipping artifacts that prove you can build.

How to Become a Self Taught Senior Engineer: The 4-Year Arc
A direct look at the compounding systems and architectural shifts required to move from self-taught beginner to senior engineer in four years.

Building an AI Story App: The Systems Behind Inky
A technical breakdown of building an AI story app. I cover agentic engineering, narrative state management, and the lessons learned from shipping Inky.

The Systemic Career Change Into Tech
A career change into tech isn't about learning a language; it's about translating your existing operating system into a new medium. Here is how to ship.