Projects

A wine app for iOS and Android that inverts the usual architecture: the intelligence — taste profiling, recommendations, scanning a restaurant wine list and picking the bottle — runs on-device. The backend stays deliberately thin: it syncs user state and ships a static catalog, and the heavy lifting (scraping shops, enriching data) happens in batch on local hardware. The interesting bet: modern phones are smart enough that the cloud-brain + dumb-client split is optional.

Label an issue, and a pipeline of AI agents picks it up: a project manager enriches it into a plan, a tech lead dispatches tasks, workers implement and open PRs. Humans review at gates. It’s an ongoing experiment in how much of the routine engineering loop can run unattended — and in what kinds of supervision structures make that trustworthy rather than terrifying.

Enterprise consulting work: tooling around a large Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration — a real-time status dashboard plus PowerShell workers orchestrating the migration platform, target tenant, and source directory. The interesting part is the shape of the problem: identity, mail, devices and shared services all moving while the business keeps running.

The site you’re reading. Learnings publish exactly one per day from a queue — backlog is runway, not debt. News posts flow on merit, fact-checked against fetched sources, my take on top. An AI co-writes and argues with me (its objections get surfaced, not silently applied), but every post passes a human gate. The system’s most important skill is saying no.

The full architecture drawing — doors, agents, the human gate, four lanes — lives at The Machine, public on purpose.

The operating environment behind everything else: a resident orchestrator that routes tasks to LLM workers, runs scheduled agents (like the weekly Field Monitor that feeds this site’s news), and maintains long-term memory — nightly ingestion of work sessions and notes into a searchable store. The design principle: the orchestrator plans and verifies; disposable workers execute.