Platform engineering is my day job; spotting real-world problems and designing complete solutions for them is the habit underneath it. Two ventures where I combined software, AI, manufacturing, and business thinking — end to end, from problem to plan.
manufacturing × technology · decorative & packaging glass
A manufacturing and technology venture focused on modernizing the decorative and packaging glass industry — an industry where production still runs on paper registers and institutional memory, and where digital transformation is a competitive weapon rather than a buzzword.
Designed a tracking system covering the full manufacturing chain — raw material → production → QC → packing → dispatch — turning an opaque shop floor into queryable state.
Planned manufacturing workflow automation and process optimization — applying the same "automate the recurring thing" discipline I use on cloud fleets to physical production.
Built concepts for an interactive glass design configurator — letting customers design and preview custom glass products instead of ordering from static catalogs.
Researched advanced glass coating techniques and specialty manufacturing processes to find defensible, higher-margin product lines.
ai product concept · personalized healthcare · mobile 3D scanning
A concept for an AI-powered custom insole platform built around hardware most people already carry: the iPhone's TrueDepth camera. Instead of clinic visits and plaster casts, a foot scan from your phone drives custom insole manufacturing.
iPhone TrueDepth scan ──► AI / computer-vision pipeline │ foot geometry & pressure analysis ▼ custom insole spec │ ▼ manufacturing integration ──► insole at your door
Designed the complete journey from 3D foot scan to custom insole manufacturing — every handoff between app, analysis, and production specified.
Planned the computer-vision pipeline for foot analysis — turning TrueDepth point clouds into manufacturing-ready measurements.
Focused on user experience and system architecture — the product only works if scanning feels effortless and the pipeline behind it is invisible.
Explored personalized healthcare through mobile technology already in people's pockets — no special hardware, no clinic gatekeeping.
Neither of these is a unicorn story — they're something more useful: proof of a habit. Identify a real-world problem, design the complete solution — business model, product, technology, and operations together, not just the code. It's the same instinct that turns a one-off script into a platform, applied outside the terminal.
If you're building something that spans software, AI, and the physical world — that's a conversation I'd enjoy.