Software engineer · Toronto

Bringing your ideas to life through software.

Twenty years building systems that scale, mostly in Java. The tools are changing fast — but getting the domain model right still matters more than any of them.

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Jun 7, 2026 Don't outsource the thinking Developers are starting to refuse to work without AI. The tools were never the problem — handing over the part that thinks is. aiengineeringcraft
May 30, 2026 Modeling the domain first Why I reach for the domain model before the framework, the database, or the API. engineeringdomain modeling

// what I'm working on

live from GitHub & WakaTime

GitHub contributions

3,496 · past year

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Commits 83.3%Reviews 10.8%Pull requests 5.6%Issues 0.3%

AI activity

on WakaTime

$2.1Kspend · 7d

Fable

$1,076 · 4,202 lines

Opus

$855 · 1,225 lines

Sonnet

$151

Others

$3 · 74 lines · GPT, Claude

cost share · 5 models · actual spend

</> line changes 93% AI · 5,501 ai / 425 human

Tokens

549.9M548.8M in · 1.2M out

Prompts

365868 chars avg

Sessions

50~7 prompts each

AI pairing

12h 08m25.1% of coding time

Coding activity

8h 31m · last 7 days

Languages

Java36.76%SQL14.24%JavaScript10.44%Markdown8.87%TypeScript8.52%Vue6.3%HTML5.95%TSV3.09%Python1.98%Bash1.58%Astro1.05%Diff0.64%Java Properties0.41%Text0.12%YAML0.06%

Editors & Tools

Claude Code26.31%Orca19.98%SparkDesktop17.11%cmux13.52%Warp3.26%DataGrip3.03%Excel2.6%Slack2.53%GitHub2.34%VS Code1.98%ClickUp1.79%Fork1.35%Unknown Editor1.18%ChatGPT0.99%iTerm20.91%IntelliJ IDEA0.51%Zed0.47%Notion0.1%Notes0.06%

Operating systems

Mac100%