Articles on engineering, systems design, startups, and lessons from the trenches.
Most fraud is not clever. It is repetitive. On building fraud detection — and why fraud is detectable before it is paid.
I have processed $8M+ across international gateways. Payment integration is one of the hardest engineering problems you will face.
On building infrastructure for legitimate digital privacy — for those who operate where identity is a vulnerability.
A decade later, a modular-first ERP principle runs 35 modules. Why modularity is not optional.
PHP, Python, Java, C, JavaScript — I have shipped production systems in all of them. Language is a tool.
The quality of your database schema is the ceiling of your entire application.
When you write a network IDS in C and watch raw packets scroll past, you stop trusting networks.
In accounting, every debit must have a credit. In financial software, every decision must have a consequence.
Every developer who bolted security onto a finished system regretted it.