Thoughts on software engineering, building products, and things I'm learning along the way.
The Main Idea Behind Forge Was Simple: I Was Broke
The core engineering idea behind Forge was fallback orchestration across free LLM APIs so the workflow could still complete even when one provider failed.
Herb Was My First Real Hardware Project
Herb pushed me out of pure software and into hardware, GPIO debugging, and systems thinking in a way that completely changed how I approach engineering.
What Ross Video Taught Me About Building Useful RAG Systems
Building a full-stack RAG chatbot at Ross Video taught me that retrieval is only half the job. The real challenge is making the answers actually useful.
Building a Matching Engine at Shopify
Working on intern-team matching at Shopify gave me a look at messy operational systems at scale and turned a classic algorithm into something with real-world impact.