Where Topographic Maps Meet System Architecture
Fifteen years translating business requirements into blueprints. Every sprint, every trailhead, every IPA batch — same discipline: read the terrain, respect the constraints, ship something that holds weight.
Current Work
Apollo 11: A Systems Architect's Reading of the Mission — An essay examining the telemetry, redundancy, and decision-tree architecture of the first Moon landing, read through the lens of someone who spends their days mapping enterprise dependencies and their weekends reading contour lines.
I look at the Apollo guidance computer and I don't see nostalgia. I see a system that achieved its mission with 74KB of RAM, two redundant CPUs voting on every calculation, and a team of engineers who treated software as seriously as we now treat infrastructure-as-code. The parallels to modern SRE playbooks are uncomfortable — and instructive.