Data Warehouse for Cloud Compliance Verification
Built a compliance data warehouse for an In-Q-Tel portfolio company using AWS Glue, Spark, and S3. The system automated FedRAMP and PCI DSS compliance...
What It Is
System Design (Scalable Software Architecture) is a designing systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_design
Homelab and Infrastructure
My homelab is both a workshop and a proving ground.
Kubernetes systems
Container orchestration platforms schedule workloads, manage service discovery, and enforce desired state across clusters of compute resources.
Node.js
Node.js is a runtime for executing JavaScript on the server.
Photo Sharing Site — Self-Hosted
Built and ran a self-hosted photo sharing platform before cloud storage made it trivial — covering web dev, storage, auth, and the enduring question of how to make a growing photo library actually useful.
Postman
Postman is an API development and testing platform.
Praxis — The Magnolia Homelab
A 4-node Proxmox cluster running Kubernetes, Ceph, site-to-site VPNs to AWS, GitOps pipelines, and a full observability stack — built to test every architecture I recommend to clients.
Routing systems (BGP, etc.)
Distributed decision systems determine network paths based on policy and topology, balancing reachability, performance, and control.
Scaling to Millions of Loan Customers
A multi-year initiative to scale a cloud-native, serverless loan management platform on AWS for a student and consumer debt company. Wrote Architecture...
Security & Permission Systems
Frameworks control access to systems and data across overlapping teams, tools, and projects.