From Business Analyst to CPO
What carried over from ten years of banking and insurance analysis into running engineering at a startup — and the habits I had to unlearn.
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Engineering notes, product thinking and career lessons from building software for banks, insurers and startups.
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LLM-Assisted Requirements Analysis
Where a language model genuinely helps a business analyst — drafting acceptance criteria, spotting gaps in workshop notes — and where it quietly makes things worse.
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Writing Acceptance Criteria That Developers Love
A short template for acceptance criteria that reads like a test, avoids ambiguity and stops the “that is not what we meant” conversation at UAT.
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Zero-Downtime Deploys on a Single VPS
A boring, reliable deploy pipeline for a Laravel site on one VPS: atomic releases, health checks, cached config and a rollback that takes ten seconds.
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Building Hierarchical Blog Categories in Laravel
How this blog models a three-level category tree with an adjacency list, cached depth/path columns and a single scope that returns every post under a branch.
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Filament Admin Panels for Content-Heavy Sites
Why Filament replaced a hand-rolled admin in a week: resources, relation managers, media uploads and a tree-aware category select — with the trade-offs I hit along the way.
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