Case studies
How the work gets built.
A few things built end to end — a shipped SaaS, an internal platform, a data pipeline. Real projects, honestly told.
Building GemID — a cross-platform SaaS, shipped solo
A gemstone-identification and exam-prep app with a decision engine, payments, and fifteen languages — designed, built, and shipped to the App Store by one person.
The operating system I run my companies from
An internal platform that aggregates analytics across nine services and keeps every product, credential, and venture in one private place.
A distributed system designed to fail safely
Two hosts, one writer, and an irreplaceable database: an ownership lease with fencing, a standby that refuses to push backups, a ~20-failure-mode threat model, and a failover drilled live in both directions.
Giving an AI production access without giving it the keys
A conversational agent that can inspect live infrastructure on request and cannot change any of it without a one-time code from a human — running on self-hosted models, so the questions never leave the building.
A multi-source data pipeline, built to be cloned
A public-data pipeline with connectors to 33 state and municipal registries — connector per source, validation against ground truth, and a readiness gate that decides which sources are trustworthy enough to use. Then cloned to a second market in weeks.