At Convo I interviewed about twenty mid and senior Python engineers. Same role. Same bar. Almost the same conversation every time.

At Tasq.io we had several repositories that were loosely connected but lived completely separate lives. Shared logic got copied from one place to another. Dependencies were tracked separately in each repo. CI/CD pipelines had to be maintained for every project on its own. Working across them felt messier than it…

At Tasq the AWS bill kept climbing as we grew. Nothing dramatic day to day, just a steady rise that got hard to ignore. Most of it sat in network traffic, storage, and monitoring. I dug into the invoices and the setup behind them, and three things kept showing up.…

When I joined Tasq, there was no shared way of shipping code. Some people pushed straight to main. Others opened pull requests with no description, no testing notes, and no real review. You often found out about a change only after it was already live, and bugs that a second…

At BriteCore I work on BriteLines, the product definition and rating service for property and casualty insurers. Carriers configure coverages, rate tables, and rules there. Quoting and rating need that configuration constantly, so we do not want every premium calculation hitting the database.

At BriteCore, BriteLines rebuilds product caches in the background. Change a product version and we queue work on SQS. Each message starts a Lambda that rebuilds the cache for one risk type and writes it to Redis.

Owning my own home has always been a dream of mine. After several years of working as a software engineer, juggling part-time jobs, and managing my finances carefully, I saved enough by early 2016 to start building my own house. After nearly two years of construction, it is now almost…

In 2014 I took a small Upwork contract to build a profiles module in Python Flask. The client liked the work and sent another. Then another. After a few of those I was deep enough in the product that they asked if I wanted to come on as a partner.…

At Active Capital IT we run a digital asset management platform for universities, museums, and libraries. People upload large image collections and videos. The app converts formats, builds thumbnails, pulls out metadata, and writes the results to a network mounted drive that all four servers can see. Celery handles that…

I co-founded Chef Galaxy. It connects customers with chefs for events like birthdays and weddings. Think of it as an Upwork for hiring a chef. We also have a social feed around food and a Q&A section where people ask food questions and chefs answer. That is a lot of…