Caffeine, Code, & Chaos

Systems engineer. Robotics geek. Maker of shiny things. Part race car, part glitter. Powered by caffeine and curiosity.

GitHub Well-Architected for Financial Services, Part 3: Source Code Management and Change Control

Make financial-services repositories easy to find, maintain, and contribute to, with clear ownership, effective reviews, risk-tiered change controls, and evidence that follows the release.

GitHub Well-Architected for Financial Services, Part 2: Identity and Access Management

Give engineers and service identities the access they need without leaving permissions behind: practical onboarding, least privilege, reliable offboarding, and tested recovery for financial institutions.

GitHub Well-Architected for Financial Services, Part 1: Platform Foundation and Data Boundaries

Run GitHub as a financial institution’s engineering platform: clear service ownership, deliberate data boundaries, measurable operations, and rehearsed recovery backed by defensible evidence.

GitHub Well-Architected for Financial Services: Series Overview and Compliance Mapping

How to apply GitHub Well-Architected at a financial institution: govern the platform, design for resilience, secure software, improve collaboration, and make delivery more effective within regulatory requirements.

Git Worktrees: Work on Multiple Branches Without Losing Your Mind

Git worktrees let you check out multiple branches simultaneously in separate directories. Here is why you should care and how to actually use them.