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I build products, build agents, and build them after bedtime.

Senior PM at AWS. 0-to-1 launches, agentic systems, and honest notes from shipping real software in the margins of a full life.

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buildingan agentic job-search app
ridingCascade back roads on two wheels
readingthe MCP spec, again
plottinga family trip across the Pacific
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Jun 10, 2026Built After Bedtime6 min

Aaru's Guide: the app I built so we'd stop Googling at 2am

Our daughter arrived in May. Within a week I'd built her an AI pediatric guide grounded only in real medical guidance. Here's the why and the how.

May 28, 2026Agents at Work9 min

Agentic commerce is a payments problem in an AI costume

Everyone's talking about agents that buy things. The hard part was never the agent. It was authorization, holdbacks, and trust.

May 24, 2026Zero to One7 min

The launch that almost didn't ship

EventBridge Global Endpoints went from a whiteboard bet to GA. Here's the part that nearly killed it, and what I'd do differently.

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