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 · Led the zero-to-one delivery of an enterprise platform that turns architecture patterns into real-time component recommendations and compliant solution blueprints.
• Vendor-neutral observability platform · Project · Architected a log repatriation and routing platform designed to ingest 150 TB per day across more than 10,000 systems without coupling teams to one observability vendor.
• Healthcare verification platform · Project · Joined as the first engineer and built the application stack across the React client, Node.js APIs, verification layer, and AWS EKS deployment.
• ASB Assist · Project · A natural-language architecture workflow that uses LLM and RAG patterns to generate compliant diagrams and recommend enterprise services on top of the blueprint platform.
• 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.