Selected work.

What was built, why it was built that way, and what could have gone wrong. Each entry states the engagement honestly: contract, employment, family, or my own system. The deep ones are written twice, once for the person who reads code and once for the person who signs.

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A complete payments platform

The whole thing: the API businesses plug into, the page customers pay on, the portal merchants use, the tools staff use. One engineer. AI agents wrote most of the code.

SERVERLESS AWSSTEP FUNCTIONS · DLQsSIGNED BOTH WAYS · SCOPED KEYSIDEMPOTENT MUTATIONSTOKENIZATION-FIRSTAGENT KNOWLEDGE LAYER

Contracted lead engineer, via Antillean.io · a Caribbean payment service provider · 2025–26.

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A lighting shop that had nothing to sell online

Eight hundred products, no catalogue, photos on a phone. Now one system makes the product photography, the ad material, and a shop that answers the question a customer actually asked.

COMPUTER VISIONGENERATIVE IMAGERY26-FIELD ONTOLOGY~$0.10 / PRODUCT4 LANGUAGES

Product design and architecture · my father's lighting business in Willemstad · family, not a client engagement.

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A shop's whole workflow, without touching the POS

Custom orders lived in conversations, memory, and an old system nobody could read. Now the whole floor runs on software, and the till system it all depends on was never written to.

READ-ONLY INTEGRATIONROLE-GATED SCREENSAUDIT LOG BY DEFAULTOBSERVED REQUIREMENTS

Product design and engineering · Mister & Miss Exclusive, Curaçao · client engagement.

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Keeping a public record that keeps disappearing

Curaçao's public information sits across a lot of sources that quietly change and disappear. This keeps the originals untouched and rebuilds everything else on top of them.

APPEND-ONLY RAW ARCHIVEDETERMINISTIC REFINECOST-CAPPED EXTRACTIONREBUILDABLE GRAPH

Own system, own IP · Antillean.io · 2026.

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Billing honestly when agents write the code

A defensible reconstruction of billable hours, worked out from the engineering activity itself. Built for the years where agents do the typing.

DEDUCTIONS-ONLY45-MIN IDLE THRESHOLDCOMMIT FALLBACKDUAL-SIGNAL VALIDATION

Own system, own IP · Antillean.io · 2026.