Selected work
A small number of things, described honestly.
Each entry names the constraint, what I decided, what changed in the system, and what I would do differently. Company-specific detail is anonymised on purpose.
- Read: Built quality engineering at Thomann Music from the first hire
Case study
Built quality engineering at Thomann Music from the first hire
A music retailer online since 1996 hired its first quality engineer in September 2022. What I introduced, in what order, and why the measure was never the test count.
- Read: Wrote the testing standard and moved release decisions into the teams that ship
Case study
Wrote the testing standard and moved release decisions into the teams that ship
Turning a quality function that ran tests into one that made ownership, gates and release decisions explicit across product teams.
- Read: Wrote the AI-assisted engineering guidelines the organisation adopted
Case study
Wrote the AI-assisted engineering guidelines the organisation adopted
Writing AI-assisted development guidelines for an engineering organisation, and the review process that decided whether anyone would follow them.
- Read: Automation that keeps human judgment
Viewpoint
Automation that keeps human judgment
A working principle for AI-assisted engineering: let tooling investigate, draft and challenge, and keep publication, approval and merge with a person who can be asked why.
- Read: Browser automation a team can trust on the first read
Case study
Browser automation a team can trust on the first read
How I approach Playwright architecture, locator strategy and CI feedback so that a red build means something and a green one can be trusted.