Case studies

Selected engineering work

Architecture and product work from my employment at Brain Station 23, alongside an independent system I designed and implemented. Each case study covers the problem, my contribution, key decisions, and what changed.

Independent product

A private MVP I designed and implemented end to end.

Independent product · Sole architect and implementer · Completed private MVP

FinMind AI: Architecting a financial agent

Designed and implemented a personal-finance MVP with a LlamaIndex-based agent that answers account, spending, and budget questions using user-specific context and tools.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • LlamaIndex
  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • Redis
  • SQLAlchemy
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Employment work

Selected work from my roles at Brain Station 23, shared at a level appropriate for public discussion.

Brain Station 23 · Backend lead · 20K+ monthly active users

Kirin WellWa

Backend lead for Kirin’s corporate wellness platform, from the first design decisions through rewards, checkout, and the integrations around them.

  • Python
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Celery
  • Redis
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Brain Station 23 · Full-stack Software Engineer · Multi-tenant fleet operations

TEQ Fleet Management

Full-stack product engineering for a Norway-based, multi-tenant and multilingual fleet management platform.

  • Python
  • Django
  • Django REST framework
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • Vue.js
  • React
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Brain Station 23 · Architecture and implementation lead · Identity platform supporting 10M+ accounts

Tsuruha identity platform

Architecture and implementation of a custom Keycloak-based identity provider for authentication, authorization, and identity management.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • Keycloak
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Brain Station 23 · Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer · Multiple product systems

Architecture evolution

Earlier product work at the same employer: event-driven integration, a monolith migration, and access control.

  • AWS Lambda
  • EventBridge
  • API Gateway
  • Django
  • Vue.js
  • Auth0
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