After 5 years at Astera Software where I grew from associate to senior, led teams, and built everything from microservices to AI-powered workflows. Then I went independent. Now I help clients build web applications and deploy AI agents that actually solve problems.
Most briefs describe a symptom. Before anything gets built I want the trace, the query plan, or the ledger — whatever the actual evidence is. The refund agent that started my last essay looked fine on the diagram and wrong in the log.
Then make it fast. A dictionary lookup and an if-statement beat a model call for authorization, and they cost nothing. Cleverness goes where the problem is genuinely ambiguous, not where it is merely tedious.
Log every gate that blocks and every gate that errors. The measure of the work is whether someone else can reconstruct what happened six months after I have gone.
Products I own and systems shipped for clients. Each one is here because something in it was genuinely hard.
Every figure below comes from a specific piece of work with a name attached. None of them are round, because real ones rarely are.
Claude-driven PR review on installer pipelines
InstallShield → WiX migration
Installation Manager, rebuilt on Builder/Factory
SonarQube audits across 12 sprints
Long-form on agents, ledgers and pipelines. Written after the fact, with the trace included.
The safety check that runs after the money moves is not a guardrail. It is a receipt.
Most of what I write comes out of getting something wrong in production and then having to explain it. That turns out to be the only reliable source of anything worth saying.
I'm freelancing, currently working with two clients on projects ranging from web applications to deploying AI agents for their business workflows. If you need software built or AI integrated into your stack, let's talk.
Tool authorization, input screening, evals, and the failure modes nobody chooses. Deployed, not demoed.
Next.js, .NET Core, FastAPI, Postgres. End to end: architecture, build, deploy, iterate.
Double-entry ledgers, multi-currency, reconciliation. Where a rounding error is a legal problem.
WinForms to WPF. InstallShield to WiX. Monolith to microservices. Without stopping the business.
Prompt testing as code. Deterministic extraction. Model cost that drops to zero after the first run.
Read the codebase, name the risk, price the fix. Written up so a non-engineer can act on it.
Tell me what breaks, what it costs when it breaks, and what you have tried. That is enough for me to say whether I can help.