Writings

After months using Claude Code on enterprise banking infrastructure, here's the actual workflow — not the demo version. Specifications, governance, limits, and what genuinely changes when AI becomes part of your engineering process.

Three years engineering a shared digital onboarding platform across four financial products at Scotiabank CCAU. The architecture decisions, the failure modes, and the operational lessons that don't fit in a README.

The quality of AI-generated code is bounded by the quality of your specification. Here's the practice that changed how I use AI tools in production engineering.

Not a tutorial. An honest assessment of how Claude Code changed my daily engineering workflow — what it improved, what it didn't, and the mental model shift it required.

The hardest part of the Staff level isn't writing better code. It's making architectural decisions that remain legible and defensible after you've left the team.

Forms in banking aren't UI components — they're compliance interfaces with a UI layer on top. Here's the architecture that handles it without coupling business rules to your components.

How to apply Domain-Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture in a real React TypeScript project — ports, adapters, use cases and clean boundaries.

Building a shared React component library for financial products sounds straightforward. After two years delivering it across four products at Scotiabank, here's what actually happens.

A practical guide to implementing OpenGraph meta tags in React with react-helmet — improve how your pages appear on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Keep your main branch history clean by squashing a feature branch's commits into one before merging — step by step with a reusable shell script.

Stop repeating useEffect + fetch boilerplate in every component. Build a reusable useAPI hook that handles loading, error, and data states in one place.

Set up TypeScript in an Express project from scratch — tsconfig, type-safe request handlers, build scripts, and the patterns that make it worth the setup.