I am an engineer, architect, mentor, systems researcher, and a skeptic of anything that hasn't been tested at scale.
I build systems that have no choice but to work. A decade at AWS taught me that at the exabyte scale, software is just a way to manage the physics and economics of hardware. My time in the internals of S3 Glacier was a masterclass in this balance: maintaining 20-nines of durability while driving costs to the floor.
I learned that true depth is found in the precision of data layouts, the violence of garbage collection, and building migration pipelines that move petabytes without losing a bit. It is an operational posture where you repair state faster than entropy can destroy it.
Today, I apply this obsession to AWS Bedrock. The challenge has shifted from data-at-rest to hardware scarcity. We architect sub-minute cluster lifecycles and abstraction layers to squeeze every drop of utility out of a constrained infrastructure footprint.
Mechanical sympathy is an invariant: high-quality design is an illusion if it fails to respect the constraints and capabilities of the underlying hardware. With this conviction, I am resuming my 'past form' after a four-year hiatus for family. This site is my Write-Ahead Log (WAL)—a persistent record of the research, books, and architectural artifacts that define my filter on systems, serving as my Running Sum and a roadmap for recapping a decade of mastery in large-scale operations and mentorship.