Selected Work
Case studies from real engagements: the problem, the approach, the technology and the outcome.
Project write-ups
The kinds of projects we deliver, described generally: the challenge, the approach, the solution and the technology behind it. Client names, verified results and references are published only with the client's approval.
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An E-commerce Build: From Catalogue to Checkout
A project-type walkthrough of an e-commerce build: catalogue structure, search, cart, checkout, and the integrations underneath.
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Management Systems: Turning Spreadsheets into an EMS
How ad-hoc spreadsheets and message threads become a managed system with roles, workflows and an audit trail.
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Portfolio and Blogging Platforms: Structure, Content and Speed
A project-type walkthrough of content platforms: content models, authoring, publishing workflows and fast delivery.
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Web and Mobile Applications: One Product, Two Surfaces
A project-type walkthrough of delivering the same capability on web and mobile without maintaining two unrelated products.
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Training Platforms: Courses, Progress and Assessment
A project-type walkthrough of a training platform: content structure, enrollment, progress tracking and assessment.
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AI and Deep Learning Projects: From Experiment to Application
A project-type walkthrough of an applied AI project: framing the question, preparing data, evaluating, and deploying with monitoring.
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Checkout Reliability: Designing for the Moment of Payment
A project-type walkthrough of payment work: states, retries, idempotency and making the riskiest screen in commerce boring.
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Payments and Inventory: The Engine Room of E-commerce
A project-type walkthrough of the hard half of a store: stock truth, order lifecycle, payment states and reconciliation.
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Role-Based Access Control: Who Sees What in a Business System
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Dashboards and Reporting in a Management System
A project-type walkthrough of reporting work: definitions everyone agrees on, live views, and exports that survive scrutiny.
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Connecting a New Front End to a Legacy System
A project-type walkthrough of integration work: adapters, sync, idempotency and shipping a modern interface without replacing the core.
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Offline-First Design for Field Work
A project-type walkthrough of applications used where the connection is not: local storage, sync, conflicts and recovery.
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Multi-Vendor Marketplaces: Listings, Orders and Payouts
A project-type walkthrough of a marketplace build: onboarding sellers, listings, order routing, commissions and payouts.
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Search, Recommendations and Ranking with Machine Learning
A project-type walkthrough of a discovery project: queries, relevance, ranking models and the evaluation that keeps them honest.
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Giving Instructors Control of Their Content
A project-type walkthrough of authoring tools: structured content, previews, permissions and publishing without a developer.
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