5 under 5
My personal top 5 from the last 5 years. The ones I'd do over again. Same shape each time: the problem, the approach and what shipped.
Multi-currency settlement platform on Bitcoin
A multi-currency expense settlement backend moving BTC and USDT across three Bitcoin layers. Designed as 6 microservices in three languages and showcased as lead engineer at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas.
Read the casePersonality-driven talent platform
A resume builder and job board for an HR tech vendor, fused with their personality and aptitude assessments so employers and candidates match on working style, not just keywords. Led a 4-person team distributed across four countries from architecture to launch, through the 2022 industry crisis.
Read the caseMass-affluent wealth platform, public + private markets
Complete solution architecture for a UAE digital wealth platform built for the mass-affluent: a $25K minimum, public and private markets in the same app, every investor paired with a real wealth advisor. Designed and pitched end-to-end, winning the company a 6-figure contract. The blueprint is now under active development.
Read the caseAI-integrated field service platform
A modern field service platform built from scratch with AI woven into the core workflows, not bolted on. Architected end-to-end and delivered to MVP in 8 weeks on a strict weekly release cycle.
Read the caseValheim AWS server for friends, sleeps when nobody plays
Migrated four friends off a home-hosted Valheim server onto AWS in one day. Static IP so the saved address never changes, Docker container, hourly backups synced to S3 and a Discord slash command that wakes the EC2 instance. Sleeps after 30 minutes idle, costs about $8 a month.
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Your project hereIt probably looks like nothing in here matches your problem.
The cards above show the shape, not the limit. If your problem is even adjacent to one of these, the conversation's worth having.