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Series

The Field You Build On

In reading order.

  • 2 parts
  • ≈ 15 min total
  • 2 published
Part 1 26 Jun 2026 8 min read

Greenfield Is a Diagnosis, Not a Prize

Teams ask for a rewrite as though greenfield were a reward for enduring the old codebase - it is a diagnosis with a test attached, and misdiagnosis is how rewrites fail. Part 1 of 2 on choosing the field you build on.

Part 2 28 Jun 2026 7 min read

A Blank Page Still Needs Gates

The diagnosis came back genuine and the repository is empty - now the discipline the old system used to impose for free must be rebuilt by hand. Greenfield delivery as three questions (decide, prove, ship) and the gates an AI-assisted team still owes itself.

Which CV would you like?

Pick the one closest to the role. Each is two pages and carries the same facts.

Applied AI

Agentic AI & Cloud Engineer · multi-agent systems, RAG and MCP on AWS

Cloud & .NET

C#, .NET 10 and ASP.NET Core microservices on AWS and Azure · Terraform & AWS CDK

Data Engineering

AWS lakehouse · Kinesis, Glue (PySpark), Apache Iceberg, Lake Formation

Everything

All three domains, with the standout project from each