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Writing

Writing.

Long-form essays from Atlas Crew. Written for engineers who want to know how things actually work, not just what features exist.

Method · Career Search

Career search with Claude.

A four-phase methodology for running a serious job search with Claude, written up before Facet existed as a product. Profile yourself like a product, research targets where you actually win, build reusable prep, close the loop per listing. The kit is downloadable. Take the parts that fit. Throw the rest out.

Deep Dive · Synapse Fleet Intelligence

A fleet that shares fingerprints, not data: inside Synapse Fleet Intelligence

The coordination plane for a Synapse deployment, and how it does collective defense across tenants without ever centralizing a payload. Anonymized SHA-256 fingerprints, an 8-factor campaign correlator, ~50ms fleet-wide pushes, self-host including air-gapped deployments, and sensor resilience that never silently fails open.

Deep Dive · Synapse Architecture

Every sensor is a brain: rebuilding a WAF without a cloud backend

How Synapse makes every edge location a complete detection engine. Twelve inline capabilities in a single 25MB binary, no cloud round-trip, no background loop, and a command plane that's genuinely optional. The thesis article for the rest of the writing on this site.

Deep Dive · Edge DLP

Line-rate DLP: the literal-first split that runs data loss prevention inline

How Synapse scans 22 sensitive-data patterns sub-millisecond on multi-megabyte bodies, with zero false positives, and still finds time to catch the outbound leaks. Aho-Corasick, zero-allocation validators, a soft 8KB cap, and parallel execution with upstream I/O.