Built with AI, not around it
AI made building faster than ever — but the decisions that matter come before you ship: which approach survives production, where the blast radius is, what a cost model misses. That's where two decades of experience earns its place. AI speeds up the work, not the judgment behind it.
I set the architecture direction and governance for the decisions enterprises can't afford to get wrong — security, guardrails, and the standards teams run on. I work across AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud, with the deepest experience in the stateful systems most teams find hardest: Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Decide
Build the business case, weigh the risk, pick the approach that survives production.
Prove
Set the bar for evidence — real benchmarks in a controlled environment, not assumptions.
Scale
Turn the result into a repeatable standard the team owns and builds on.
Recent perspectives
How a Conference Conversation Became a Database Migration Program
Business case, two-phase benchmarking, and the out-of-place methodology behind a +39.5% result.
Engineering JudgmentOne SQL Command vs. 13 Hours of Python
Knowing when to lean on the database instead of code — a real RDS MySQL data load, and the 99%+ runtime improvement from a single decision.