Engineering Stories
Twenty years of building systems across high-frequency trading, classical music technology, emergency healthcare, and industrial automation. These are the stories that don't fit on a resume.
Trading Infrastructure
Exchange connectivity at IMC, 90+ trading venues, FIX protocol implementation, and what most engineers get wrong when they first hear the words "low latency."
Apple Acquisition
The origin story of Apple Music Classical — and why the Primephonic metadata database we built was different enough from every other music catalog that Apple acquired the whole company to get it.
Classical Music Metadata
How we turned 1,399 pages of printed classical music compositions into a searchable database — and why OCR, hand-tuned heuristics, and a lot of domain knowledge were the only way through.
High-Frequency Trading
Goldman Sachs reconciliation systems, the ETF desk launch, and eight years of building infrastructure where a single bug costs more than most software engineers earn in a decade.
Healthcare & Patents
The two years I spent building emergency radiology workflow software — and what it taught me about what software is actually for when the stakes are a human life.
Career
From industrial automation to trading floors to Apple Music. What crossing industry boundaries actually teaches you — and why the skills that transfer are never the ones you expect.
Mentoring
Cambridge University interns, the questions they ask that I can't answer, and why experience without transmission is just accumulation.