Designing a provenance-aware employer data model
How NZ Accredited Employer Inspector keeps official accreditation data, community page mappings, derived name matches, and operational state separate.
Engineering and product writing.
Notes from production systems, SaaS trade-offs, backend-heavy product work, and decisions that carry real operating cost.
Building a trustworthy accredited-employer checker for New Zealand job seekers
How I approached a seemingly simple browser extension as a data-trust problem, with explicit source boundaries, user-triggered verification, and explainable results.
Complexity Is Never Free: Architecture Trade-offs from Building a SaaS Alone
In a production SaaS developed and maintained by one person, every layer of complexity eventually returns to that person. Complexity worth owning solves a real problem. The rest borrows time from both the product and its developer.