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Behind the Work Career Reflection

The Silent Excellence Trap: Why Good Work Gets Invisible in Big Organizations

Why complex enabling work often disappears in large organizations, and why I now think of visibility as part of delivery rather than as a political side quest.

Mar 25, 2026
5 minute read
Agentic AI DevSecOps Automation

How I Run SonarQube in My Own CI Pipeline (And Let AI Fix What It Finds)

The pattern I use to turn SonarQube from passive reporting into an active remediation loop with labels, issues, AI-assisted fixes, and human-controlled pull requests.

Mar 05, 2026
4 minute read
Agentic AI Platform Engineering Build in Public

Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons from Building an 8-Agent Engineering Orchestra

What building CueMarshal taught me about real multi-agent design: role boundaries, permissions, identity, routing, and why orchestration matters more than agent count.

Aug 28, 2025
5 minute read
Build in Public Ai Education

Teaching Kids to Code With Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: Why I Built FireFly

Why I built FireFly around mastery, not streaks: using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, visual execution, and age-adaptive tutoring to help kids actually understand code.

May 08, 2025
5 minute read
Platform Engineering Developer Experience

The DORA Report Was Right: IDPs Improve Team Productivity by 10% — Here's How I've Seen It

Why the DORA platform engineering findings rang true to me, and what I have learned from building delivery standards, templates, and paved roads that actually help teams move faster.

Apr 10, 2025
5 minute read
Agentic AI Platform Engineering

MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers

Why MCP matters in practice: not as another AI buzzword, but as a clean protocol for connecting models to real tools, systems, and delivery workflows.

Mar 20, 2025
4 minute read
Build in Public Platform Engineering Devops

Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)

Why I started building CueMarshal: not to replace engineers, but to turn Git, reviews, and automation into a more practical coordination layer for software delivery.

Feb 15, 2025
6 minute read
Featured image of post Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts
Azure Devops Infrastructure as Code

Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts

How I used Azure deployment scripts and Bicep to dynamically query existing labels and keys in Azure App Configuration and conditionally deploy only what is missing.

Jan 10, 2025
6 minute read
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Azure Automation Devops

Automating Notifications in Azure Devops Using Power Automate

Learn how to automate notifications for work item updates in Azure DevOps using Power Automate. This step-by-step guide covers everything from setting up the trigger to handling work item state changes with expressions.

Oct 08, 2024
6 minute read
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Devops DevSecOps Security Automation

Automating OWASP Top Ten Scan Reports in Azure DevOps

How I automated OWASP ZAP scans in Azure DevOps release pipelines: running the scanner, converting findings to NUnit format, and surfacing vulnerabilities as test results.

Sep 05, 2024
9 minute read
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