01Projects

Product work, systems work, and the things that held up under real use.

A focused set of shipped pieces, each one built to feel calm even when the underlying system was not.

[ Sec. 02 ] Selected Work

Verol Analytics interfaceFR_01

2024 — Now · Founding engineer

Verol Analytics

Product · AI workspace

An analytics surface for product teams that replaces dashboards with a writeable, queryable workspace. Built from a blank file to 1,200 active teams.

−68%

Median query latency

  • Next.js
  • ClickHouse
  • tRPC
  • OpenAI
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Quill Commands interfaceFR_02

2023 · Tech lead

Quill Commands

Internal tooling · Engineering

A keyboard-first command surface unifying ten scattered tools into one canvas. Used 42 times a day, on average, by every engineer on the team.

94%

Weekly adoption

  • Electron
  • Rust
  • SQLite
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Northwind Pay interfaceFR_03

2022 · Senior engineer

Northwind Pay

Fintech · Payments console

A payments console rebuilt from first principles — fast, calm, and honest about complexity. Reconciliation moved from nightly batch to real time.

−41%

Support tickets

  • React
  • Go
  • Postgres
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[ Sec. 03 ] Featured Case Study

Atelier
Analytic.

A study in restraint: how a three-person team replaced eleven dashboards with one writeable surface and earned the trust of operators who'd seen the promise broken before.

Quiet workspace with morning light
  • 01

    Challenge

    Verol's product team was drowning in dashboards. Every team had built their own; nothing was trusted. Decisions stalled while people argued over which number was right.

  • 02

    Research

    Six weeks of interviews across 14 teams. The pattern was clear: people wanted answers, not charts. The unit of work was a question, not a metric.

  • 03

    Architecture

    A streaming query engine on ClickHouse, a document model that treats charts as first-class blocks, and an LLM layer that translates natural language into typed SQL.

  • 04

    Process

    Shipped weekly with five design partners. Every release went through a 30-minute critique. We killed three features that tested well but never got used.

  • 05

    Results

    Median time-to-answer dropped from 18 minutes to 40 seconds. Verol crossed 1,200 active teams within nine months and raised a Series A on the back of retention, not growth hacks.