Articles that bridge technical expertise with leadership and management.
How I transformed Advision from a company where everyone waited for my decisions to one where leaders owned their domains and drove results. The systematic approach to hiring for ownership, building accountability systems, and creating a culture of strategic thinking.
A technical walkthrough of the Sports AI Assistant — a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system designed to handle complex, real-time sports queries using large language models, semantic retrieval, and live data integrations.
Real-world lessons and architectural decisions from building an NFL data pipeline that ingests from SportRadar to BigQuery. Why I chose Apache Beam over Spark, when serverless made sense, and how cloud-native architecture solved problems I didn't expect.
How I built a semantic entity resolution system using vector embeddings to transform natural language queries into structured data lookups, enabling OddsTrader's conversational AI to ground responses in real-time sports data.
I used to think scalability was the ultimate goal—that if a system could scale horizontally, it could handle anything. The Odds Importer taught me how data context can quietly destroy even the most perfectly designed distributed systems.
A deep dive into the architectural decisions, constitutional principles, and technical tradeoffs behind building a Model Context Protocol server for content management and AI integration.
I used to think optimization was the sign of a good engineer. But over-optimizing isn't just wasted effort—it's how you create invisible complexity that haunts you for years.
AI-assisted coding isn't about writing faster—it's about thinking differently. How treating AI like a collaborator instead of a tool changes everything about building software.
How I transformed a chaotic collection of hard-coded C# scripts into a scalable, observable data ingestion platform processing tens of millions of updates per day.
How I built an end-to-end automated SEO workflow using AI, MCP servers, and custom tooling to generate hundreds of optimized pages without losing data accuracy or design consistency.