Case studies
Real problems at real scale. Every piece answers one question: what changed because I was here.
How a purpose-built wire automation platform on Kyriba, SWIFT, and Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking rails took a top PE firm from manual wire operations to 99%+ straight-through processing.
Read →4 min readBuilding a Claude-powered agent that reads fund legal documents and automates LemonEdge fund-accounting setup — eliminating weeks of manual configuration per fund launch.
Read →2 min readThe build-when-warranted philosophy applied at home. A paid options-flow analytics subscription cancelled, replaced with a purpose-built Rust platform that does more, costs nothing monthly, and runs on infrastructure I already own.
Read →3 min readA self-hosted personal finance platform built because the alternatives either died, cost money while owning your data, or did the math wrong. 7,000+ transactions, 3 years of history, running on a Mac at home.
Read →9 min readBuilt from a simple observation: every app I developed needed the same data providers, and each one was reimplementing the same start/stop, auth, and failover logic independently. SanthoshIAS is the service layer I extracted — one provider, one contract, all apps.
Read →5 min readBuilt when the stack got big enough that keeping it running became a job of its own. Sentinel supervises every service, restarts them intelligently when they fail, and turns each recurring failure into a playbook it runs automatically the next time.
Read →5 min readAn options analytics and automated trading platform, now at v11. Bayesian expectancy, per-symbol state machines, market-character classification, and a five-layer safety architecture — engineered to production standards because the consequences are real.
Read →4 min readA self-hosted children's media stack that runs on home infrastructure. Allowlisted content only, no recommendation algorithm, no ads, no tracking. The local-first philosophy applied to the toughest user base there is.
Read →3 min read