Engineering systems · Building products · Sharing what works
Complex problems.
Thoughtful systems.
I'm Conor Brown, a software engineer with 12 years of experience building business-critical platforms, distributed infrastructure, and products. I work across implementation, system design, and cross-team architecture.
Selected engineering work
All case studies →Managing thousands of servers remotely
Designing a remote execution and update-delivery system for a distributed hosting fleet.
Technical leadership · DDDBringing business rules into the domain
Helping teams move behavior out of procedural application code and into domain models that reflect real workflows.
Reliability · MessagingReliable asynchronous usage logging
Building an Azure Service Bus-backed system for usage events with complex business rules and a delivery SLA.
Architectural judgmentReplacing excessive search infrastructure
Using targeted SQL search columns and indexing instead of a heavyweight Elasticsearch implementation.
Products I'm building
All projects →Writing and field notes
Read more →Architecture decisions, distributed-systems tradeoffs, domain modeling, and lessons from real products. Substance over buzzwords.