Journal

Chapter 02Expeditions

Four stops on the trail so far. Each one: where I was, what I did, what I learned, and the gear I carried.

Current expedition
Past expedition

Most recent at the top —
the trail runs backwards.

02 / Expeditions

Where I've worked.

Expedition 01 · Apr 2026 – PresentNow
FederatoSenior Forward Deployed Engineer
Leading complex customer implementations on an AI-native insurance platform: discovery, integrations, and hands-on code for customers and internal tooling.
Python JavaScript SQL
Lesson: [WHAT THIS STOP TAUGHT YOU]
Read field notes for Federato →
Expedition 02 · Feb 2024 – Apr 2026
ZafinTechnical Consultant / Senior Software Engineer
Led a team of 8 building a FinTech SaaS product that sets customer tiers, loyalty rewards and fee rebates for a leading North American bank.
Java Spring Boot Kafka Apache Flink PostgreSQL Azure Kubernetes
Lesson: [WHAT THIS STOP TAUGHT YOU]
Read field notes for Zafin →
Expedition 03 · Aug 2022 – Jul 2023
Altitude SportsFull Stack Engineer
Owned the core of the catalogue service for an outdoor e-commerce retailer and planned the migration of its product information management processes.
TypeScript Node.js React MongoDB AWS Docker
Lesson: [WHAT THIS STOP TAUGHT YOU]
Read field notes for Altitude Sports →
Expedition 04 · Mar 2021 – Jul 2022
IBMTechnical Lead
Built event-driven data pipelines and GraphQL and REST services for a telecommunications client, growing from developer to technical lead of two teams.
GraphQL Cassandra
Lesson: [WHAT THIS STOP TAUGHT YOU]
Read field notes for IBM →