// ABE'S ARTIFACTS
Abe's Artifacts
In modern AI tools, an artifact is what gets pulled out of the chat and given its own dedicated panel: the work substantial enough to outlast the conversation that produced it. These are mine.
01 — Projects
6 artifactsSystems I designed, built, and delivered.
Designing an AI Platform for Data That Cannot Leave
The architecture for running language models on infrastructure an organization controls, where the data boundary is decided before the model is.
When a Migration Is Actually Done
Moving a decade of authoritative legislative records onto a new platform, and how you establish that a migration is complete rather than merely finished.
Commerce Ordering System
Architecture and leadership behind a Drupal Commerce ordering platform for the California State Assembly, where one shared core serves many departments, each with its own catalog, checkout, and fulfillment rules.
Real-Time Check-In System
Architecture and leadership behind a real-time, multi-tablet web app that replaced a radio and paper workflow for floor operations in the California State Senate.
Meeting Scheduling System
Architecture and leadership behind a scheduling platform for California State Assembly Member offices.
02 — Writing
5 artifactsWritings, approaches, and frameworks on how I build.
Managing Essential Complexity: An Engineering Practice
Principles from a decade of maintaining mission-critical systems for the California State Legislature, where the friction only surfaces years after a system goes live.
Context Over Prompts: How AI Widened the Engineering Gap
A practitioner's framework for building with AI, and why better tooling made judgment more valuable rather than less.
Why an MBA?
A software engineer's case for a business degree, and what it changed about which systems get built.
How I Built This
The decisions behind this portfolio site. What I chose, why, and what I deliberately left out.
Agentic Orchestration Framework
A structured orchestration framework for Claude Code that transforms large development tasks into coordinated, multi-agent operations.
03 — Interactive
2 artifactsInteractive elements included
My Stats
Almost ten years of my GitLab activity, month by month: the commits and merge requests I open, review, and merge, going back to 2016.
Code Samples
Production code I write by hand, side by side with the same code after an AI-assisted session. The engineering decisions stay mine. The surface area multiplies.
Why an MBA?
A software engineer's case for a business degree, and what it changed about which systems get built.
Designing an AI Platform for Data That Cannot Leave
The architecture for running language models on infrastructure an organization controls, where the data boundary is decided before the model is.
When a Migration Is Actually Done
Moving a decade of authoritative legislative records onto a new platform, and how you establish that a migration is complete rather than merely finished.
Commerce Ordering System
Architecture and leadership behind a Drupal Commerce ordering platform for the California State Assembly, where one shared core serves many departments, each with its own catalog, checkout, and fulfillment rules.
Web Data Services: One Source of Truth
A central data service I led to production for the California Legislature, where one source holds the record of members, districts, committees, and deadlines, and every application reads from it.
My Stats
Almost ten years of my GitLab activity, month by month: the commits and merge requests I open, review, and merge, going back to 2016.
Real-Time Check-In System
Architecture and leadership behind a real-time, multi-tablet web app that replaced a radio and paper workflow for floor operations in the California State Senate.
Code Samples
Production code I write by hand, side by side with the same code after an AI-assisted session. The engineering decisions stay mine. The surface area multiplies.
How I Built This
The decisions behind this portfolio site. What I chose, why, and what I deliberately left out.
Context Over Prompts: How AI Widened the Engineering Gap
A practitioner's framework for building with AI, and why better tooling made judgment more valuable rather than less.
Meeting Scheduling System
Architecture and leadership behind a scheduling platform for California State Assembly Member offices.
Managing Essential Complexity: An Engineering Practice
Principles from a decade of maintaining mission-critical systems for the California State Legislature, where the friction only surfaces years after a system goes live.
Agentic Orchestration Framework
A structured orchestration framework for Claude Code that transforms large development tasks into coordinated, multi-agent operations.