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Each case study follows the same template: problem, constraints, architecture, hard problems, decisions, failure model, security, tests and limits. Each one embeds its evidence.

Employment

Real work for an employer, sanitized. Source code is proprietary.

Real-time trading platform

Real-time data · backend platform

Employment

A live trading platform for real customers: market data streamed to several web applications, alongside purchase, wallet, payout and KYC workflows that must never double-charge or lose a change.

Role: Platform architecture, backend and production operations

  • Go
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Kafka
  • Avro
  • WebSockets
  • gRPC
  • TimescaleDB

6 self-reported claims · source proprietary

Source code proprietary. Architecture redrawn with generic names; scale, latency and business figures are not disclosed. No employer data or internal documents are published. A reference is available on request.

Read the case study

Details undisclosed (proprietary)

Personal lab

My own public repositories.

BoundedCode

AI developer tooling · Go control plane

Personal lab

Coding agents overflow context on large repositories and report success because tests are green, even when no test exercises their change.

Role: Sole designer and maintainer

  • Go
  • SQLite
  • Docker
  • llama.cpp
  • OpenHands SDK
  • gitleaks
  • GitHub Actions

Named tests behind the tested claims

+5 more test files

8 of 8 claims tested in CI · v0.1.0-alpha.3 · be1aa9f

Lab evidence: verified on CI runners and a local machine, not in production use.

Read the case studySource on GitHub (external link)

Not yet evidence

In progress

A Kubernetes platform lab and a Go LLM gateway are in progress. They will appear here, with their own claims, when their repositories, tests and reports are public. Until then they are listed only on /limits, as planned work.