Selected experience

Engineering work.

Production systems, architecture improvements, and technical leadership. Previous employer details are intentionally described at a high level to respect confidentiality.

Distributed infrastructure

Remote hosting management at fleet scale

Designed and built a management service deployed across 2,000+ servers, plus a mechanism to deliver changes to running services.

  • Remote .NET API operations for IIS, files, Windows services, firewall and certificates
  • Update orchestration and operational concerns across a large fleet
  • Security, action logging, and administration constraints
Payments engineering

Card Account Updater

Built a containerized card-account-update microservice intended to help subscription businesses avoid avoidable churn from expired or replaced cards.

  • Integration boundaries with payment workflows
  • Asynchronous processing and failure handling
  • Business continuity as the driving requirement
Azure · Reliability

Usage logging with delivery guarantees

Designed an Azure and Service Bus-based API usage event system with complex rules and a 99.9% delivery SLA.

  • Decoupling customer-facing APIs from usage processing
  • Durable messaging, retries, and observability
  • Mapping business rules to delivery behavior
Domain-driven design · Leadership

Moving domain behavior into the model

Led DDD workshops and architectural reviews that helped guide real implementations and reimplementations of business-critical slices.

  • Learning the language and constraints of the business
  • Encapsulating invariants in rich domain models
  • Helping teams adopt consistent architecture through reviews and teaching
Architecture enablement · AI-assisted development

Codifying architecture standards for future development

Authored a CLAUDE.md for the modernized rules-engine application to guide Claude Code toward domain-driven design and established clean architecture boundaries, rather than copying the legacy CRUD-oriented implementation.

  • Documented preferred DDD patterns, modern C# standards, data access and dependency direction
  • Designated a demonstrated DDD vertical slice as the reference implementation for subsequent changes
  • Made architectural intent available at the point of implementation, including during AI-assisted contributions
Modernization · Cloud

Preparing legacy applications for modern deployment

Introduced Azure Key Vault integration, containerized a legacy application, and prepared its deployment approach for Linux-based Azure App Service.

  • Incremental migration rather than unnecessary rewrites
  • Configuration and secret-management boundaries
  • Deployment readiness and operational considerations
SQL · Pragmatic architecture

Right-sizing application search

Replaced an oversized Elasticsearch-based approach with search columns and database indexing aligned with actual application requirements.

  • Understanding the real search use cases
  • Choosing appropriate SQL indexing strategies
  • Reducing moving parts when a dedicated search cluster is not justified
Want to go deeper?

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