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Case studies from the job.

Five roles. The same through-line: take a system that is already in production, find the seam that actually matters, and make the next change cheaper than the last one.

Allstate · 2025 — now

Agentic systems for insurance risk

Multi-step agents on Bedrock, retrieval over insurance data, and decision APIs that actuarial teams can actually call.

AWS BedrockAgentsRAGEval

Northwestern Mutual · 2024 — 2025

Latency on a financial event mesh

Millions of financial events a day. The p99 was the product. Stream layout and backpressure were the work.

KafkaStreamsResilience

Terracon · 2022 — 2024

Strangler-fig cutover of a 15-year monolith

Anti-corruption layers, traffic shaping, and feature flags so the old system could die without a big-bang weekend.

Strangler figCI/CDTerraform

Johnson Controls · 2023

Edge-to-cloud building telemetry

Sensor fleets, an MQTT broker, and a time-series store. The backlog was measured in minutes. It needed to be seconds.

IoTMQTTTime series

Uline · 2021 — 2022

A nightly job that ran until morning

Enterprise Java, a 4.2-hour batch, and a coverage number that did not match the risk of changing it.

JavaSQLTesting