Side Projects
In addition to my professional work, I have periodically built, operated, or maintained systems outside my primary role. These projects are not experiments for experimentation’s sake, nor are they attempts to establish an alternative career path. They exist because certain problems were interesting, useful, or worth solving well.
This section provides context for that work.
What belongs here
The projects collected here share a few common traits:
- They solve real problems, often with real users
- They are operated, not just built
- They tend to run for long periods with minimal intervention
- They emphasize clarity, reliability, and responsible use of resources
Some of these projects were undertaken independently; others were supported by organizations or environments I was already working within. In all cases, they reflect the same operational mindset that shows up in my professional work.
Relationship to my primary work
These projects are intentionally kept separate from my main professional focus on warehousing and logistics systems. While the domains differ, the underlying concerns are the same:
- Systems should be understandable
- Failures should be visible and recoverable
- Operators should not be surprised by system behavior
- Constraints should inform design rather than be ignored
Side projects provide space to explore these ideas more directly, without the scale or organizational complexity of production enterprise systems.
What you will find here
The pages in this section document a small number of substantial side efforts. Some involve operating real infrastructure; others focus on data formats, utilities, or narrowly scoped tools that benefit from being published independently.
They are included to add context and color, not to compete with or distract from my primary work.
This section exists to show how the same patterns apply when the stakes, scale, or setting change. It is supplementary by design.