Selected work

Liber V / Cloud economics / engineering systems

Platform Modernization

Less infrastructure spend, clearer dependencies, and faster delivery.

Period
2024-2026
Role
Director of Engineering and lead architect
Practice
Technical strategy / Cloud architecture / Developer experience
Architecture intervention diagram connecting cloud audit, caching, rightsizing, deployment changes, and annual savings
Plate V. Public-safe reconstruction of the intervention sequence; vendor pricing and private architecture are intentionally omitted.

I / The problem

Complexity had to become usable.

Interdependent products had hidden coupling, uneven deployment practices, and infrastructure costs that no longer reflected actual needs.

II / The system

Architecture in service of action.

Audited usage, pricing, contracts, cache behavior, and always-on resources across providers.

Rightsized infrastructure, improved caching, selectively insourced services, and eliminated unnecessary continuous servers.

Introduced monorepo boundaries and standardized deployment systems so dependencies became explicit.

III / The result

Outcomes, not ornament.

  • Reduced annual AWS and Cloudflare spend by more than $300,000.
  • Improved maintainability across interdependent products.
  • Established a clearer, more repeatable delivery model for the engineering organization.

Vendor pricing, private architecture, and security-sensitive implementation details are intentionally excluded.

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