Internal starter codebases and CI/CD
2021–2025
Internal starter codebases and CI/CD tooling so new company projects skip setting up delivery from scratch.
Engineering
Maven
I used Maven to manage Java build automation, dependencies and testing across internal platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
See its threads in the worldUsed on
Company website estate
2023–2024
Smarter.Codes' in-house software estate behind its public site: crawler, automation framework, natural-language stack and chatbots.
Engineering recruitment pipeline
2021–2026
Internal engineering hiring pipeline at Smarter.Codes, run as one thread per open position with async tests before live interviews.
Internal engineering estate
2022–2024
Smarter.Codes' internal estate: a MediaWiki and Wikibase documentation portal, public website and engineering consoles used by staff.
Address-directory crawling estate
2020–2021
Crawling and address-extraction system that builds a directory of the physical locations of internet businesses from public web pages.
Payment-proof review for a P2P crypto marketplace
2023–2024
A service that classifies payment-proof images on a peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace and returns the key text line by line.
NLX entity-extraction API
2022–2023
Natural-language API that returns entities, facts and a parse tree from domain-specific text such as ingredient declarations and medical supply descriptions.
SEO analysis platform
2016–2021
SEO analysis product that crawls a customer site, analyses its pages and turns findings into assignable tasks for marketing teams.
Internal proposal management
2020–2023
Internal software that watches freelance marketplaces and social networks for worthwhile opportunities, plus a writer that drafts grounded cover letters.
Engineering hiring and enablement
Undated
Internal hiring funnel, competency ladder and appraisal cycle that bring engineers in and develop them, run mostly in Asana.
Stories where it mattered
2026 · Engineering recruitment pipeline
A hiring process that does not depend on me being in the room
- Situation
- Technical hiring for a research engineering role ran through me, a bottleneck and a single point of judgement.
- Task
- Build an interview panel that keeps the bar without depending on me.
- Action
- I proposed one lead and two shadows, shared candidate review beforehand, independent written feedback before discussion, and shadows who graduate into leads.
- Result
- The format became how the round runs, and the shadow-to-lead path grew the pool of interviewers.
2026 · Engineering recruitment pipeline
A one out of five, written so the candidate could act on it
- Situation
- A research engineering candidate reached a working coding-round solution with AI assistance but could not explain why the Python worked.
- Task
- Score the round and write feedback that the candidate, recruiter and panel could all act on.
- Action
- I scored it low and wrote out the reasoning behind each mark, recommended not proceeding, said what to strengthen, and gave a reapplication window.
- Result
- The rejection was reviewable rather than a bare verdict, and the panel's differing views were visible to decision makers.
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