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Proof

Trust signals, public artifacts, and other evidence that help serious readers reduce uncertainty.

Routing Notes

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What This Page Is For

This page keeps proof separate from story and routing. It exists for people who need more than a homepage and an about page before deciding whether there is a fit.

Selected Case Studies

These are the flagship case studies — written to show the full shape of the work: the context, the system that was built, what came of it, and the patterns worth reusing.

  • Scaling to Millions of Loan Customers — deep technical expertise and project management for a multi-year scaling initiative on a Fortune 1000 loan servicer’s serverless AWS platform: five validated scaling threats, Architecture Decision Records, and a tracked roadmap to millions of active loans within a strict per-loan cost ceiling.
  • Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform — co-founding and building a real-time market-maker in programmatic advertising: sub-300ms decisions billions of times per day, a pre-TensorFlow continuously-learning pricing pipeline, and honest venture-design lessons from how it ended.
  • Great Data Lake LLC — Data Brokerage and Value-Add Business — founding a data company that turned hundreds of terabytes of monthly raw streams into clean, compliant, subscription data products: derivative products, compliance as infrastructure, and a production-pipeline sampling system.
  • Six-Month Turnaround of Stalled Defense Projects — unblocking a year-stalled, multi-project initiative in six months by translating technical conflict, reverting to proven infrastructure, and installing execution mechanics that made progress visible again.

The full index of shorter project snapshots is at Projects for Work.

What Else Will Live Here

Over time, this page should also collect:

  • talks, interviews, and external appearances
  • references, endorsements, or testimonials when they are ready
  • links to strong writing that helps explain the work
  • simple media and bio pointers when useful

Beyond This Site

The strongest proof beyond this page is spread across About, Work & Ventures, Ideas & Writing, and Speaking & Media.

The most useful public reference points right now are:

  • GitHub for technical work, tooling, and systems artifacts
  • Stack Overflow for practical infrastructure and problem-solving traces
  • Upwork for the most explicit public consulting, data, and architecture framing
  • Medium for longer-form writing about craft, clarity, and systems
  • Dribbble for visual, UX, and design-oriented history

If you want the more human, long-horizon version of that public trail, Goodreads and Last.fm add useful texture without changing the core message.

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