Hi, I'm Curly
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I help business owners turn messy operations into calm systems, useful products, and decisions the team can carry.
Start a conversationOperating clarity
The team is moving faster than the map.
I am most useful when the business already has motion, but the operating system is still scattered across people, habits, and half-visible decisions.
The first move is not choosing a fashionable tool. It is making the real work visible enough that the owner, the team, and the system can move from the same picture.
Work hides in side channels
The real process lives across chats, sheets, meetings, and memory.
Ownership gets polite but blurry
People care, but the next decision still waits for the same few people.
Tools add another job
The system should make the owner sleep easier, not create more upkeep.
Companies
Work chapters where business context, people, and systems shaped how I think about building useful technology.
Enterprise software / Banking / CDP systems
Datum Consulting NZ
Enterprise engineering across banking, customer data, serverless platforms, and client rooms where requirements need to survive real operational pressure.Technology advisory / Transformation / Room readingKPMG Digital Lighthouse
Early enterprise work that taught me to understand messy business processes before proposing a technical path.
Education / Robotics / Product rebuildGaraSTEM
Full-stack product work across firmware, hardware, mobile, and backend systems for STEM learning in real classrooms.
Student startup / Education / First productFaraClass
The first attempt at using technology to make programming education more accessible, and the unfinished lesson that later pulled me toward GaraSTEM.
Articles
Writing is where I pin down the patterns behind products, teams, systems, and AI work before they turn into another messy build.
Business Systems / Jun 14, 2026
How to Build a Referral System That Works Like a Charm
A story-first guide to referral partner experience, customer trust, host operations, transparency, real-time feedback, and commission ladders.Engineering / Jun 15, 2026The Golden Architecture for Most Startups
A practical, founder-friendly default architecture for startups: Cloudflare, TypeScript, Hono, Drizzle, queues, workflows, observability, and Mastra where AI actually belongs.
Engineering / Jun 15, 2026The Cloudflare Stack for Production Systems
A practical, story-first map of Cloudflare's production platform: edge compute, storage, queues, workflows, AI, security, observability, and where each service actually belongs.
Engineering / 15 min read / Jun 17, 2026From Raw Athena Data To SageMaker Pipelines
A field note on a banking AWS Lakehouse: how raw Athena data becomes governed Iceberg tables, daily Airflow runs, and promotable SageMaker models.
Projects
Current work where research, visual judgment, and practical systems are shaped into surfaces people can use.
Interface systems / Art history / Live project
Vintage UI
A visual history for real interface systems, turning art-historical periods into practical website systems, components, sections, templates, documentation, and business surfaces.
Education / STEM kits / Product platformGaraSTEM
A learning and product surface for STEM kits, robotics, and coding experiences designed for students, schools, and families.
Hospitality / Theatre / Booking systemHouse of Legends
A dinner theatre and cabaret platform for Da Nang, spanning show discovery, cultural storytelling, schedules, bookings, and venue operations.
Career orientation / Youth platform / VietnamYouth+
A youth career and learning platform that helps young people explore direction, mentors, courses, jobs, and professional pathways.
Hospitality / Automation / Train control systemThe Train Restaurant
Vietnam's first and only train restaurant, supported by an automated control system that coordinates every service train so the dining flow can match real business needs.
Bakery / Entremet / Work in progressLa Dulce DN
A work-in-progress bakery site for La Dulce DN, shaping a warm public surface for entremet cakes, seasonal pastry collections, ordering paths, and a calmer customer experience.