How I Design and Build Systems
A disciplined 6-stage engineering workflow designed to reduce risk, eliminate ungrounded model behavior, and deliver production-ready software systems with clear audit trails.
The 6-Stage Execution Blueprint
Diagnose
Understand the workflow, human users, data inputs, existing tools, failure points, and operational bottlenecks.
Design
Define system architecture, state machine schemas, API boundaries, automation limits, and human approval gates.
Prototype
Build the smallest working end-to-end version to test real data flow, model behavior, and edge cases.
Evaluate
Rigorously test correctness, groundedness, latency, cost, security, and human fallback performance.
Deploy
Configure production infrastructure, retry queues, audit logging, security tokens, and operational docs.
Improve
Observe live execution logs, analyze failure cases, collect user feedback, and refine system performance.