I build cloud systems and write about them.
CTO at Sentasity. Notes on AWS, AI, and leading engineering teams, from someone still shipping.

Writing
I wanted to know how AI data centers are built
Nov 2026I wanted to understand what actually sits behind a frontier model, so I built an interactive picture of the one rack it would take to serve one, and worked out the numbers as best I could.

What one copy of a frontier model costs
Nov 2026With data center costs all over the news, I tried to work out what the rack behind one copy of a frontier model costs to buy and run, part by part, down to a rough cost per million tokens.

Who Owns This?
SentasityOct 2026The costliest part of a forgotten cloud resource isn't the bill. It's the hunt for who owns it.

Why Your Cost Optimization Recommendations Are Gathering Dust
SentasityJun 2026Finding AWS waste is the easy part. Acting on what you found is where teams get stuck.

Your AWS Dashboard Has All the Answers (Except the One That Matters)
SentasityMay 2026More cloud data doesn't help without guidance, which is why opinionated recommendations beat dashboards.

Building a Voice AI for Restaurants with Nova Sonic + Pipecat
Aug 2025Built a low-latency voice agent using Pipecat and AWS Nova Sonic. Great voice quality, painful observability. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and what’s next.

Automating Git Workflows with AI (Without Breaking the Bank)
Jun 2025I built Git AI to automate commit messages and PR descriptions using AI — no subscriptions, no bloat. It’s an open-source tool that saves time and keeps your Git workflow efficient and affordable.

Chatting with Odoo: A Simple Way to Get Answers with AI
May 2025I built an AI chatbot using FastMCP, odoo-rpc-client, and Claude 4 to easily chat with my Odoo ERP data. This is how I did it.

Building cal2ts: How I Automated Timesheet Hell for My Engineering Team
Apr 2025Timesheet management sucks. I built cal2ts to fix it. This AI-powered web app turns calendar events into timesheet entries with one click, letting our Cloud303 engineers focus on building great software instead of fighting with Odoo.

Why I Chose AWS Amplify, Contentful, and Next.js to Build My Blog
Apr 2025I looked at a few different ways to build my blog, but ended up going with AWS Amplify, Contentful, and Next.js. Here’s why this setup made the most sense for what I needed.
