Field notes
Writing for teams building systems that have to survive production.
AI systems, realtime platforms, fintech infrastructure, and the engineering leadership choices that decide whether ambitious work holds up.
AI Systems
The production AI systems audit
A field note on choosing the first AI workflow worth building before a team burns cycles on demos, tools, and unclear ownership.
2026-06-01 · 6 min readRead
Realtime Systems
Scaling WebRTC architecture for 1,000+ concurrent VTubers
How a custom SFU topology, simulcast, and explicit latency ownership helped avatar-driven rooms scale without turning presence into lag.
2026-05-18 · 5 min readRead
Team Leadership
Building startup software teams from zero to one
What technical leaders need to make explicit before hiring turns a small founding team into a fragile delivery organization.
2026-05-05 · 7 min readRead