publications
Writing, talks, and coverage.
Artificial Intelligence
- Commanding AI: Automating Docs, Reviews & Reports in Rails Talk on integrating AI into a Rails production workflow — automating document processing, code reviews, and reporting with Claude and custom tooling.
- Getting AI to Work for You Presentation at ERA on practical AI integration — building agent systems, choosing models, and getting real productivity gains from AI tools.
- The Memory System Behind My Local AI Chief of Staff A deep dive into the four-layer memory architecture powering Gomez, my personal AI assistant — from daily logs to structured entity graphs.
Developer Relations
- How to Build a Thriving Open-source Community Practical tactics for growing an open-source developer community: set measurable goals, be transparent, showcase your tech, and make participation easy.
- Real-time Streaming Pattern: Preprocessing for Sentiment Analysis How to use the preprocessing pattern to clean and transform data streams — using sentiment analysis stop-word removal as a practical example.
- Real-time Streaming Pattern: Triggering Alerts Building event-triggered applications that monitor data streams and fire alerts when thresholds are breached — from CPU monitoring to fraud detection.
- Real-time Streaming Pattern: Joining Event Streams Merging multiple data pipelines to create new signals — with a customer loyalty example showing how to join click streams with customer profiles.
- Streaming With Wallaroo: Fast Algorithmic Trading Checks A walkthrough of Wallaroo's Market Spread example — demonstrating sub-millisecond risk checks for electronic trading using stateful stream processing.
- Wallaroo in Action: Real-Time Electronic Trading Risk Checks Case study on implementing real-time risk checks for electronic trading systems using Wallaroo's distributed stream processing framework.
Productivity
- Creative Problem Solving With a Deck of Cards How Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies — a deck of lateral thinking prompts — can break creative blocks and spark unexpected solutions.
- Using Notion to Collaborate and Have Fewer Meetings How Barrel, a 35-person remote agency, built a Notion wiki that centralized knowledge, standardized workflows, and cut down on meetings.
Business Operations
- Effective Teamwork Keys to building effective teams in distributed environments: clear vision, documented processes, and creating psychological safety for collaboration.
Press & Coverage
- How LEA Uses Reducto to Deliver Document Intelligence to Enterprise Wealth Management Firms Case study on how LEA processes thousands of financial documents monthly for $10B+ RIAs, reducing manual data entry by 50% with a 3-person team.