Platform architecture

Paved roads, decision models, reusable contracts, governance, and enterprise platform delivery.

• Platform architecture: from standards to a usable product · Guide · A practical guide to turning architecture standards into paved roads, reusable contracts, and measurable platform outcomes.
• Observability systems: design the telemetry path before the dashboard · Guide · A systems guide to telemetry contracts, collection, routing, storage boundaries, and operational feedback at scale.
• Cloud migration: sequence decisions, not just workloads · Guide · A practical guide to cloud migration boundaries, dependency mapping, landing zones, observability, cutovers, and exit criteria.
• Staff engineering practice: create leverage through clear systems · Guide · A practical guide to technical direction, decision records, cross-team delivery, mentoring, and operational credibility.
• Architecture Solution Blueprint platform · Project · Designed and led the zero-to-one delivery of an enterprise platform that turns 1,000+ architecture patterns into real-time service recommendations, solution blueprints, and automated architecture workflows.
• Vendor-neutral observability platform · Project · Architected a vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry and telemetry-routing platform designed for approximately 150 TB/day across 10,000+ systems, enabling governed collection and routing without coupling teams to a single observability vendor.
• ASB Assist · Project · Building an LLM and RAG architecture assistant that turns natural-language requirements into architecture recommendations and diagrams using retrieval, tool integration, evaluation, grounding controls, guardrails, and auditable workflows.
• Healthcare verification platform · Project · Joined as the first engineer and built the platform across React and TypeScript, Node.js APIs, verification workflows, document-classification integration, and AWS EKS in a regulated healthcare environment.
• Staff Software Developer & Enterprise Architect — Royal Bank of Canada · Experience · Building enterprise platforms and standards across architecture automation, observability, cloud infrastructure, and responsible AI.
• Blockchain Architect & First Full Stack Engineer — HealthCard · Experience · Built the acquired startup’s initial product and cloud architecture across frontend, APIs, verification, and deployment.
• IT Developer / Software Developer Co-op — Canada Revenue Agency · Experience · Modernised federal tax-platform interfaces and contributed to accessible digital services used by Canadians.
• Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant — Dalhousie University · Experience · Supported software development, algorithms, and graduate cloud-computing courses while researching call-stack decision algorithms.
• Blockchain Developer — CryptoVantage · Experience · Built on-chain event processing and wallet-risk analysis for anti-money-laundering workflows.
• Measure whether an internal platform creates leverage · Note · An internal platform can look successful while moving work from one team to another. Repository count, portal visits, and cluster utilisation show activity, but they do not prove that…
• Pattern matching algorithms for architecture recommendations · Note · An architecture recommendation platform must translate incomplete requirements into a small set of compatible patterns and services while explaining why each result fits. This is not…
• FINOS CALM and architecture as code · Note · Architecture diagrams are useful for communication, but a diagram alone is difficult to validate, compare, or connect to delivery controls. The Common Architecture Language…
• Architecture governance should operate through evidence · Note · Architecture governance is useful when it improves decisions and makes system risk visible. It becomes harmful when every change waits for a central meeting that lacks the context to…
• Treat Terraform modules as versioned interfaces · Note · A reusable Terraform module is an internal product interface. Its inputs, outputs, defaults, provider constraints, state behavior, and upgrade path affect every stack that consumes it.…
• Manage secrets without creating secret sprawl · Note · Secret management is not solved by moving passwords from source code into a central vault. The larger goal is to reduce the number, lifetime, reach, and human handling of credentials…
• Zero Trust begins with service identity · Note · Network location is a weak security identity. A request originating inside a cluster, virtual network, or corporate boundary is not automatically trustworthy. A Zero Trust design…
• Design the platform as a product · Note · An internal platform is successful when product teams choose it because it removes work, not because governance forces them to use it. That changes the architecture question from “what…