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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.

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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.

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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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