Tech Journal
Journal
What I'm listening to, exploring, and thinking about. A live snapshot of the current intellectual orbit.
Updated regularly. More writing dropping soon.
Currently
Listening
Podcasts, talks, and audio worth paying attention to.
Jami DeHaven — Fiserv RPA Podcast
Robotic Process Automation in Enterprise
DeHaven breaks down how RPA is being deployed at financial scale — the actual implementation challenges, change management, and where the technology genuinely delivers vs where it gets oversold. Practical and grounded.
Listen / View→More listening entries coming...
Right Now
Exploring
Ideas and rabbit holes being chased. Not conclusions — directions.
The LLM Infrastructure Gap
What production AI actually needs
Most LLM demos skip the hard part: evaluation, versioning, cost control, and latency at scale. Exploring what a real production AI stack looks like — not the notebook, but the plumbing that makes it reliable.
Data Contracts & Schema Evolution
Why upstream changes silently break downstream
Downstream consumers break when upstream schemas change without notice. Exploring contract testing for data pipelines — tools like Great Expectations, dbt tests, and how to enforce schema agreements across teams.
More exploring entries coming...
Journal
Writing
Drafts, thoughts, and technical reflections. Infrequent. Intentional.
From Models to Pipelines
What data engineering actually taught me
Moving from ML to data engineering felt like switching languages. Here's what changed about how I think about software when reliability replaces accuracy as the primary metric.
The Quiet Power of TypeScript for Backend Engineers
I resisted TypeScript for too long. Then I used it on a real project with real data contracts and real team coordination. Here's why I won't go back.
More writing entries coming...