Enterprise architect who still builds and runs software.
I help insurers turn target pictures into running systems. Building and running my own SaaS products since 2013 keeps me honest about what that takes.
Work
- Lead principal architect for claims management on an international insurer's global P&C core insurance platform, a programme of about 650 developers.
- Led enterprise architecture on a billing platform programme of more than 300 people.
- Assessed eleven central IT platforms of a utility against its new IT operating model.
- Took observability for a German utility from strategy to rollout.
Products and tools
- Librario
Cloud library software for corporate libraries, engineering firms and research teams.
- Reporting API App
Collects the errors browsers already detect and routes them to your tools.
- SLA chain calculator
End-to-end availability of a request path. Each row is one hop; add instances where a component scales horizontally.
- ASN QR code labels
Printable archive serial number labels for Paperless-ngx.
Latest writing
- How I over-engineered my private document management system
Paperless-ngx for six tenants on one NAS, reached over Tailscale. A talk from 2024, with what changed since.
- Using Caddy and .localhost for Local HTTPS and Subdomain Support on Linux
Replacing puma-dev when migrating from macOS to Linux
- How to enable reusability for
ActiveRecord::Base::normalizesReview of the new normalizes feature in Ruby on Rails 7.1 and how to increase reusability
- Simplifying UI Testing with data-testid in RSpec & Capybara
Boosting Test Efficiency with data-testid Attributes and Custom RSpec Matchers