Notes from the
workshop.
Essays, debugging stories, and short notes. Roughly in reverse chronological order, newest at the top.
/ how each post was writtenWritten by me: Written entirely by me, no AI.Hybrid: Written by me with help from AI for editing and structure.AI-written: An AI-generated summary of my work, lightly reviewed by me (prob from LinkedIn).
- 06TechnicalHybrid
Super Bartie: what I built around my CDC engine
A follow-up to Bartie. I added an API for checking on the pipeline, a second destination that stores vectors, an MCP server, and a deployment. - 05TechnicalHybrid
Building Bartie: a small Postgres CDC engine
Postgres WAL to Kafka to a second database. How Bartie handles acknowledgments, replay, and snapshot backfill. - 04TechnicalHybrid
Why I built Lattis
I kept getting cooked on system design at Oracle, Bloomberg, and Palantir. So I built a 3D walkthrough that shows why architectures evolve as systems scale. - 03CareerAI-written
Internship recruiting playbook
How I scored 11 interviews and 6 internship offers in 2025, plus REU advice and the interview formats I keep seeing. - 02TechnicalWritten by me
Speeding up grouped aggregation in Daft
Contributing to Daft's inline grouped aggregation roadmap: min/max accumulators, string fast paths, symbolization, and more on the way to 1.2x–6.2x speedups. - 01TechnicalHybrid
Winning Hack@Brown with AdVantage
A 36-hour sprint with Tom Almog, a multi-agent ad system, and Best Multi-Agent Workflow on the Fetch.ai track.