Technical writing
Original work connecting architecture, governance, security, and operational control.
Engineering Trust in Financial Systems
Lessons from Badgerlane, an independently built fintech application.
Closing the Accountability Gap Between Financial Advice and Financial Action
An engineering model for turning financial recommendations into versioned, reviewable, reversible, and auditable decisions without conflating approval with execution.
Published 2026-08-01
Authorization Is More Than a Role
A server-authoritative authorization model that separates role, tenant membership, business relationship, entitlement, resource ownership, and step-up proof.
Published 2026-08-02
Shipping Fintech on ECS Without a Dedicated Platform Team
A lean-team release architecture for ECS built around immutable artifacts, short-lived credentials, migration gates, production verification, and a deliberate rollback path.
Published 2026-08-03
Exactly Once Is a Business Requirement
A reliability model for producing effectively-once business outcomes from duplicate, delayed, retrying, and out-of-order provider events.
Published 2026-08-04
The Safe Monolith
An evidence-based case for a modular monolith with explicit internal contracts and concrete criteria for earning a remote service boundary.
Published 2026-08-05
Other technical writing
A Number Is Not an Approval
A root-cause analysis of an AI agent misbinding a numeric response across checkpoints, and a design for binding human intent to the exact action it authorizes.
Published 2026-08-04