Writing
Field notes on systems,
scale and trust.
Practical thinking from implementation, operational excellence, payments, core banking, cloud architecture, AI and engineering leadership.
Portfolio essays
Thinking in public.
Implementation · Jun 12, 2026
Implementation is an operating system, not a project phase
Successful platforms connect solution design, delivery governance, adoption and a measurable path into operations.
8 min read →Operational Excellence · Feb 18, 2026
From alert to evidence: incident operations by design
Fast recovery and regulatory confidence depend on one coherent flow from signal through RCA and reporting.
9 min read →Payments · Sep 24, 2025
The control layer payment platforms cannot scale without
Great payment rails are not enough. Reliability emerges from the operating model wrapped around them.
7 min read →Core Banking · Apr 9, 2025
Core banking succeeds at the boundaries
The most difficult part of a core transformation is rarely the ledger.
8 min read →AI · Nov 16, 2024
Grounded AI for support teams
Useful AI retrieves the right cases, respects access and shows its evidence.
7 min read →Cloud Architecture · May 28, 2024
A small event-driven banking workflow on AWS
A file, a function and an API can teach most lessons in cloud integration.
6 min read →Engineering Leadership · Oct 7, 2023
Leading through operational complexity
Leaders create scale by making the system easier for other people to operate.
8 min read →Published on Medium
Hands-on technical notes.
Claude Client with Filesystem MCP Server
A practical walkthrough of connecting Claude Desktop to a filesystem MCP server for local document workflows.
AI tool for Support organisation
A locally run RAG and LLM architecture that turns support knowledge from Jira and Confluence into grounded assistance.
AI Mind map Level 1
A visual map connecting data, algorithms and training types to make the AI landscape easier to understand.
How mutual TLS works
A concise explanation and Node.js demonstration of two-way certificate authentication between clients and servers.
Hosting static website with AWS S3 and Namecheap
A practical guide to publishing a static site through Amazon S3 and connecting a Namecheap domain.
Issue with running EC2
A troubleshooting checklist for networking, security groups and web-server configuration on a first EC2 deployment.
GCP Challenge Lab: PostgreSQL to Cloud SQL
A hands-on walkthrough for preparing a standalone PostgreSQL database for migration into Google Cloud SQL.