Staff engineering
Technical direction, cross-team leverage, decision records, mentoring, and production-grounded leadership.
- 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.
- AI governance for software systems: controls that fit delivery · Guide · A delivery-focused guide to AI inventories, risk boundaries, evaluation, human oversight, and operational evidence.
- 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 · Led the zero-to-one delivery of an enterprise platform that turns architecture patterns into real-time component recommendations and compliant solution blueprints.
- Staff Software Developer & Enterprise Architect — Royal Bank of Canada · Experience · Building enterprise platforms and standards across architecture automation, observability, cloud infrastructure, and responsible AI.
- Staff engineering is measured through leverage · Note · Staff level engineering is not defined by taking the hardest ticket or writing the most code. Its impact appears through the decisions, systems, and people that enable many teams to…
- Technical roadmaps should preserve options · Note · A technical roadmap should explain how engineering investments change business capability and system risk. A list of technologies with quarterly dates is a delivery calendar, not a strategy.
- Incident command is a coordination system · Note · During a serious incident, technical skill is necessary but insufficient. Many responders changing the system without shared priorities can increase risk. Incident command creates a…
- Architecture decision records that remain useful · Note · An architecture decision record is valuable only if a future engineer can understand what changed, why it changed, and when the decision should be reconsidered. Length is not the goal.…