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Platforms that compound. A track record, in receipts.

Twenty-four years of full-stack engineering, deployed across seventeen frameworks. Below: the flagship engagements still in production, the second tier of work that earned its keep, and the discipline of compounded hours that holds it all together.

Frameworks come and go.
Architecture is what stays.

A snapshot of frontend framework adoption velocity. We've shipped on every line below — and rewritten zero of them in production because we stopped waiting on the framework to catch up.

Framework adoption / production-grade share
2016 → 2026
50% 40% 30% 20% 10% '16 '18 '20 '22 '24 '26
React 41.7% Vue 18.2% Angular 8.1% Svelte 12.4% Solid 4.1%

Flagship engagements.

Five engagements across two decades. Each still in active production. Each scaled past the rewrite that everyone else predicted — and one of them, our newest, is the engine that watches all the others.

And the four before it.

2023
PrintFlow
Print logistics · multi-tenant

Order routing across 340 print partners. Replaced six legacy systems with a single event-sourced spine.

2.1M jobs/yr · 99.98% uptime
2021
Optimus
Operational intelligence

Real-time analytics for 180 enterprise tenants. Postgres + ClickHouse + a custom CDC layer.

47M events/day · sub-second query
2026
JVN Network
Distributed mesh

Edge-resolved identity and routing across 14 regions. Built on Cloudflare Workers + durable objects.

340k concurrent · 47ms p50
2026
Brillix.ai
AI-native orchestration

Provider-agnostic model routing with embedded RAG and real-time eval across 9 model providers.

8.4B tokens/mo · 9 providers

The rest of the shelf.

Earlier and adjacent work — every one of these is still running for someone, somewhere.

2014 Halcyon Ledger Fintech
2016 Strata CMS Publishing
2017 Rivermark Logistics
2018 Forge OS Internal tooling
2020 Lumen Health Healthcare
2023 Tessera Marketplace B2B commerce
2023 Atlas Routing Geospatial
2025 Ferrum Identity Auth platform
2025 Pravin · ML Infra Platform

Hours, compounded.

Compounded engineering hours since 2005. We don't measure mastery in framework versions. We measure it in production incidents survived.

Compounded eng hours
2005 → now
'05 '15 '26

Four principles. Tested in production.

The non-negotiables. We ship them on every engagement, regardless of stack, scale, or sector.

01
Domain over framework

Business logic lives outside the framework. We can swap the rendering tier without touching the rules.

02
Observable from commit zero

If we can't see it in production, we don't ship it. OpenTelemetry from day one.

03
Boring where it matters

Postgres. Linux. HTTP. The new thing earns its place by surviving a Tuesday.

04
Owned, not outsourced

Every line we ship has an owner with their name on it. Pager included.

Have a platform we should add to the shelf?

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