Writing
Notes on the work
Long-form notes on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and the ethics of building software for people who can’t afford for you to be wrong. I write them to clarify my own thinking; each one stands on its own.
- GBV & ethics·April 29, 2026·7 min read
Ethics in the architecture
What building Niva, a chatbot for survivors of gender-based violence, taught me about privacy, restraint, and making ethical commitments part of the system design.
EthicsAIGBVPrivacy - Engineering·April 19, 2026·18 min read
The AWS VPC field manual: a layered guide
A top-down reference for AWS networking. CIDR math, subnets, gateways, NACLs, and security groups, walked through from the outside in across eleven layers.
AWSNetworkingVPC - Engineering·April 19, 2026·16 min read
Serverless and CI/CD: a payments stack walkthrough
A field manual for the parts that come after the VPC: Lambda, API Gateway, queues, deploy pipelines, and the patterns that hold them together — walked through with a payment authorization flow.
AWSServerlessCI/CD - Engineering·April 14, 2026·12 min read
An observability baseline before the first incident
A pre-launch baseline for metrics, structured logs, traces, and alerting in a Python backend on AWS. Written down before traffic forces the issue.
ObservabilityPythonAWSBackend