Blackwell Systems

Consulting Services

I build production systems — AI agents, cloud infrastructure, backend services, and developer tooling. Not prototypes. Systems that run in production and handle real traffic.

Claude Code & Anthropic Platform

Specialization: Deep expertise in Claude Code extensibility, Anthropic API integration, and Claude-based agent orchestration. I build the infrastructure that makes Claude useful in production, not just in demos.

Services Offered

Claude Code Extensibility

  • Custom subagent types with domain-specific tooling, permission sets, and behavioral constraints
  • Skills development for workflow automation (release engineering, audits, code generation)
  • PostToolUse / SessionStart hook systems for real-time monitoring and behavioral enforcement
  • CLAUDE.md behavioral contracts for persistent project-level guidance
  • Claude Code profile management and multi-backend routing

Claude API & Bedrock Integration

  • Anthropic API integration into existing backends (direct API and AWS Bedrock)
  • Structured JSON output schemas with multi-rule validation pipelines
  • AI output validation: fuzzy matching, deduplication, schema enforcement, hallucination prevention
  • Context-augmented generation with parallel web search and faceted content extraction
  • Token optimization and cost management strategies

Claude Agent Orchestration

  • Multi-agent coordination protocol design (parallel execution, conflict prevention)
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) server development
  • Agent observability, analytics, and performance monitoring
  • Multi-backend model routing (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama/local models)

Team Adoption & Training

  • Claude Code rollout strategy for engineering organizations
  • Workshop facilitation on AI-assisted development workflows
  • Best practices documentation and internal knowledge sharing
  • Agentic development methodology training

What I’ve Built

  • scout-and-wave : Formally specified multi-agent coordination protocol for Claude Code (6 invariants, 37+ execution rules) validated across 16+ production repositories with 4-5x measured speedup. Published specification with state machine, message formats, and conformance criteria
  • scout-and-wave-web : Full-stack orchestration platform for parallel Claude agents — Go backend (40+ REST endpoints, real-time SSE streaming), React frontend (live wave dashboard, interactive dependency graphs, streaming agent output), single binary deployment
  • claudewatch : Self-improving observability platform for Claude Code — 22-tool MCP server for live session metrics, PostToolUse hooks alerting on error loops and cost spikes, CLAUDE.md effectiveness scoring with before/after comparison, multi-agent workflow analytics
  • ai-cold-start-audit : UX audit methodology using Claude agents as surrogate new users in containerized sandboxes, producing severity-tiered findings reports
  • commitmux : Cross-repository semantic search engine with MCP server — in-process vector search (sqlite-vec), FTS5 full-text indexing, 6 read-only MCP tools over stdio JSON-RPC
  • Led Claude Code adoption at Best Western as founding member of the Agentic Development Group, driving enterprise-wide rollout of AI-enhanced engineering workflows

Ideal For

  • Teams adopting Claude Code for engineering workflows
  • Companies integrating Claude API into existing products
  • Organizations building MCP servers or Claude-based tooling
  • Engineering leaders evaluating agentic development practices

AI & Agent Systems

Specialization: Production LLM systems, multi-agent architectures, and AI-assisted development infrastructure beyond Claude-specific work.

Services Offered

  • Multi-agent workflow design with deterministic handoffs and data contracts
  • RAG pipelines with source verification and grounding
  • Prompt engineering with structured output parsing and validation
  • AI-driven automation (release engineering, UX audits, code review)
  • LLM output validation: Jaccard similarity, fuzzy matching, schema enforcement
  • Agentic workflow composition (audit-fix-verify, release-publish patterns)

What I’ve Built

  • FDA Compliance Guard : Production Shopify app with Rust semantic engine (9,967 disease-claim patterns, 8 NLP subsystems), validated against 17 FDA warning letters with 0.5% false positive rate. React/TypeScript frontend, PostgreSQL, subscription billing
  • agentic-workflows : Composable multi-agent workflow system with data contract-based integration enabling deterministic handoffs between AI agents despite natural language interfaces
  • rezmakr : AI-powered resume tailoring tool with weighted bullet validation, deterministic quality gates, and hash-based deduplication

Ideal For

  • Startups building AI-powered products
  • Teams needing reliable, validated AI output in production
  • Companies automating workflows with agent-based systems

Cloud Infrastructure

Specialization: Cloud-native architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Event-driven systems, serverless, data pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

Services Offered

  • Event-driven architecture (SNS, SQS, EventBridge pipelines)
  • Serverless systems (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB)
  • Data pipeline design (CDC, ETL, real-time streaming)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK)
  • Database architecture (DynamoDB single-table design, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
  • GCP service emulation and local development environments
  • Legacy modernization to cloud-native patterns
  • Cost optimization strategies
  • Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Experience Highlights

  • 5 years operating revenue-critical backend systems serving millions of members across 100+ countries
  • Built real-time CDC pipeline replacing full-table-scan approach, processing in ~1.3 minutes regardless of dataset size
  • GCP emulator ecosystem (Secret Manager, IAM, KMS) with 13,000+ downloads and confirmed enterprise adoption
  • Designed serverless event-driven promotion system (Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Redis)
  • 3x AWS Certified, Azure, Terraform, Oracle certified

Ideal For

  • Teams migrating to cloud-native architectures
  • Engineering leaders scaling distributed systems
  • Companies needing hermetic CI/CD testing strategies
  • Organizations improving system reliability and observability

Backend Engineering

Specialization: Production backend systems in Go, Python, and Java. REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines at enterprise scale.

Services Offered

  • REST API design and implementation (Go, Python, Java)
  • Event-driven pipeline architecture
  • Database design and optimization (SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing)
  • Real-time data processing (CDC, streaming, caching)
  • Production reliability (idempotency, circuit breakers, graceful degradation)
  • Performance optimization and incident response
  • Ecommerce backends (Shopify apps, payment integrations, subscription billing)

Experience Highlights

  • Backend developer for global loyalty platform — core infrastructure consumed by nearly every engineering team in the company
  • Architected Digital Wallet backend (5 currencies, payment gateway integration, distributed caching)
  • Built serverless promotion rules engine with plugin-style extensibility
  • Diagnosed and eliminated database connection exhaustion causing production outages (60% connection reduction with HikariCP)
  • Published researcher: 2 peer-reviewed papers with DOIs on memory management and distributed systems convergence

CLI Tools & Developer Experience

Specialization: Production-quality CLI tools in Go and Rust. Interactive TUIs, Homebrew distribution, cross-platform deployment.

Services Offered

  • CLI tool design and implementation (Go, Rust)
  • Interactive TUI development (Bubble Tea)
  • Homebrew tap creation and distribution
  • MCP server development for AI tool integration
  • Developer workflow automation
  • Cross-platform deployment (single binary, go:embed, Wails)

What I’ve Built

  • shelfctl : Feature-complete Go TUI with Bubble Tea, Homebrew distribution, shipped in 4 days
  • brewprune : Homebrew package cleanup with FSEvents monitoring and confidence scoring
  • goldenthread : Schema compiler generating TypeScript/Zod from Go struct tags
  • vaultmux : Vendor-agnostic secret management across AWS, GCP, Azure, 1Password, Bitwarden
  • domainstack : Full-stack validation ecosystem in Rust (9 crates on crates.io)
  • pipeboard : Secure clipboard sharing over SSH tunnels
  • 5 reusable Bubble Tea components : carousel, command palette, Miller columns, multiselect, picker

Engagement Models

Claude / AI Integration Sprint

Duration: 1-4 weeks Deliverable: MCP server, Claude Code skills/hooks, or LLM integration — scoped, built, and deployed

Architecture Review

Duration: 1-2 weeks Deliverable: Comprehensive architecture assessment with recommendations

Implementation Consulting

Duration: Ongoing (hourly or retainer) Deliverable: Hands-on architecture guidance, code review, and implementation

Team Workshops

Duration: Half-day or full-day sessions Topics: Claude Code adoption, AI-assisted development, distributed systems patterns

Speaking & Content

Available for:

  • Conference talks on AI agent orchestration, Claude Code, distributed systems, cloud architecture
  • Podcast interviews on agentic development, multi-agent systems, developer productivity
  • Corporate workshops on Claude Code adoption and AI-assisted development workflows
  • Book talks on You Don’t Know JSON (107,000 words)

Contact

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