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Architecture Decisions
The reasoning behind key technical and design choices made during each project — context, rationale, and tradeoffs.
How an architecture audit changed FinReview before public release
Before releasing FinReview publicly, I subjected the codebase to an external architecture review using AI-assisted code analysis a…
Why financial calculations should never touch a language model
One of the earliest decisions in FinReview was also the most important: AI would never be responsible for any financial calculatio…
Why I chose FastAPI and an API-first architecture over a traditional web application
Before writing a line of FinReview's code, I made a decision that shaped every subsequent architectural choice: the backend would …
Choosing appropriate security over maximum security
Security engineering is often discussed as though more is always better. In practice, every security mechanism has a cost, and the…
Building AI features without locking into a single provider
When I added AI briefings to FinReview, I made a decision that had nothing to do with which model produced the best output: I woul…
Why I chose a static frontend over React, Vue, or Angular
Every developer building a new web project in 2024 faced the same default: choose your framework. React, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt, Svelt…
Year-based timeline instead of employer and role names on resume
The standard resume format puts the employer name first. There's a reason for that — it's a fast credibility signal. Recognisable …
Config file for text, database for structured profile data
When I added a profile management system to the admin panel, I had to decide what goes in the database and what stays in a file. …
Replaced WordPress with a custom CMS
WordPress was running when I started. The first sign of trouble was a 403 error on the homepage — a routing conflict I kept misdia…