System architecture analysis

Find the problems before your users do.

30+ years building, breaking, and fixing complex systems. I analyze what you have, identify where it's headed, and help you decide what to do about it.

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30+ years building production systems I've built systems from scratch and inherited disasters I analyze systems, not sell solutions

What makes analysis different:

I look at what the system actually does, not what the docs say
I identify incentive structures and second-order effects
I document trade-offs, not prescribe "best practices"

Why 30 years matters:

I've seen the same architectural patterns succeed and fail across decades. Enterprise applications. Web applications. SaaS platforms. The technology changes but the failure modes don't.

I know where systems drift because I've watched it happen in slow motion. I can spot the gap between "what we built" and "what we actually need" because I've been on both sides of that gap.

Experience

Billivio - Usage metering and entitlement system

Tracks and enforces usage limits for pay-per-use products. Taught me how payment flows create race conditions.

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Daklens - CSV data cleaning tool

Transforms messy data exports into clean files. Taught me that data import is where most systems actually break.

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JustHTML.dev - No-npm developer community and methodology

A community platform and resource hub for developers building without frontend frameworks. Taught me that dependency bloat is an architectural decision, not a tooling inevitability — and that the npm supply chain is a systemic risk most developers inherit without choosing.

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