For technical deep dives on my main projects, see my architecture documents.
Lab Notes
A log of my development experiments, learning journeys, and technical explorations.
These notes capture the thinking behind my projects, reflections on new technologies that I’m exploring, and interesting challenges that I’ve encountered.
2026
Nowhere to Put the Canary: Argo Rollouts + vLLM
Running vLLM on a single GPU with room for two pods, and what that does to progressive delivery when there’s no capacity to spare for a canary.
AI as a Development Partner
Reflections on how I’ve been using AI as a development partner - what I delegate, what I don’t, and what it’s produced.
From Cloud Native to Serverless with Cloudflare
Notes from a few months building on Cloudflare Workers after years of Kubernetes.
2025
Building Boston HERC's Website, Twice
My experience redesigning Boston HERC’s website to reflect their growth and impact supporting first-generation students in the Boston area.
AI as a Creative Partner
An essay reflecting on my time using GenAI as a creative partner for a HGSE course that I was a teaching fellow for.
return recurse(): Summer of Building and Learning
What I built and learned during 12 weeks of focused development at the Recurse Center.
6 Weeks of flow at Recurse Center
An update on my journey tackling developer tool chaos with a personal automation platform. 6 weeks of building desktop apps, cryptographic vaults, and feature planning at Recurse Center.
Distributing Work with Go Concurrency
A few months back, I worked through VictoriaMetrics’ Go concurrency series and wanted to get some practice. So I implemented a few distributed systems, work distribution patterns to see how the concurrency patterns translate. Work distribution is fundamental to building scalable systems - you need ways to spread processing across multiple components while coordinating the results. Go’s goroutines and channels map well to distributed system concepts - channels as service communication, goroutines as system components, WaitGroups for coordination. Here’s what I learned. ...
Forging flow: My Journey of Creation and Learning
Over the last couple of years, I have been having fun experimenting with ways to streamline my developer experience. This may largely stem from my Developer Experience (DevX) focus as a software / platform engineer in the CarGurus DevX organization. (side note: Check out this blog post I wrote on how we supercharged the experience for our Product Engineers) However, the challenges that I face at work and on my side projects aren’t quite the same as the ones faced by CarGurus product engineers. I started to find myself drowning in a sea of scattered commands, scripts, and tools. This, combined with my desire to find opportunities to learn more about Go patterns and libraries in a low-risk way, motivated me to invest some free time developing an “integrated development platform” - or at least the foundations for one! ...