Writing

Notes & write-ups.

Occasional posts on engineering, process and whatever I've been figuring out lately.

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Cost-Effective Error Monitoring: The Power of Simple Email Alerts

A 72-hour gap between a silent failure and a client complaint is not a technical problem — it's a detection problem, and the cheapest fix is already in your toolbox.

Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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The Hidden Cost of Convenience: Why Individual Work Emails in SaaS Subscriptions Are a Ticking Time Bomb

The convenience of signing up for a tool with your own work email quietly builds a parallel IT infrastructure that only becomes visible the day it breaks.

Aug 2026 · 5 min read
SettLock dashboard

Secrets shouldn't need a vault cluster to stay secret

Here's the tool I built after I got tired of watching teams paste connection strings into Slack — and why it looks the way it does.

Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Jira ticket analysis

Jira (Development) Ticket Analysis

A practical template for the "HOW" analysis that should happen before you start working a development ticket — the questions worth answering before the first line of code.

Feb 2024 · 2 min read
On the desk

Topics I'm planning to write about — nudge me on LinkedIn if you want one sooner.

Designing APIs that age well Shipping a Tauri desktop app solo What mentoring juniors taught me about code review Building an Android launcher from scratch