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Notes on engineering leadership, AI in production, and the messy reality of managing software teams. Not polished thought leadership, just what I've actually learned.

Shipping One of the First Production MCP Servers

April 2026

Auth design, rate limiting, and the decisions that shaped Schema App's MCP integration. What we got right and what I'd do differently.

Building Agentic Workflows That Actually Work

April 2026

BDR agents, a Chief of Staff bot, and what I learned about when AI agents help and when they just create more noise.

Shipping Entity Hub: From Concept to Enterprise Product

April 2026

Building an entity management platform, integrating Google Search Console at the entity level, and learning what enterprise SEO teams actually need.

Running SOC 2 and KY3P as an Engineering Manager

March 2026

What it actually looks like to own compliance end to end, and why it made me better at the rest of my job.

Building a RAG Pipeline Over 50K Entities

March 2026

Chunking strategies, reranking, evaluation with Langfuse, and what we learned building retrieval over a knowledge graph.

A $1.2M Cloud Migration in 14 Months

February 2026

Moving 6 legacy services to AWS at TNGOC. What worked, what almost didn't, and how we kept the team together.

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