How I think about systems
// the interesting part is the boundaryMost of what I find fascinating in engineering lives at the edges — the moment one system decides whether to trust another. Identity, authorization, the handshake before the real work begins. Get the boundary right and everything behind it can stay simple. Get it wrong and no amount of cleverness downstream will save you.
A system you can reason about is worth more than a clever one you can only hope about.
// how I buildI build in small, verifiable pieces — hexagonal boundaries, explicit wiring, short-lived credentials over standing ones, and no hidden trust anywhere in the graph. I'd rather a design fail loudly at the seam than quietly three layers deep. The projects below are where I test those ideas against real constraints.
// and the philosophical partSystems and the people who run them behave in surprisingly similar ways under pressure — both make decisions with incomplete information, both accrue debt, both fail in the gap between what was assumed and what was true. That overlap is what I write about in the notes, and it's why the work never feels purely technical to me.