Blog
Thoughts on operations, automation, and building solutions for contingent workforce management
November 19, 2025
AI
HR Tech
Marketplaces
Across marketplaces and EOR programs, I kept seeing the same painful pattern:
people didn’t know who actually employed them or who handled their benefits,
PTO, or payroll, or if they even qualified. In this post I walk through the problem,
how I designed the Aunikah chatbot to diagnose W-2 vs 1099 and EOR vs client vs marketplace, and
what I’d ship next in a production version.
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October 27, 2025
Python
Automation
Operations
After managing $80M+ in payroll operations and spending hours every week on manual data transformations, I built the automated suite I always needed. What took hours now takes seconds.
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October 27, 2025
Web Development
AI
HR Tech
Designed AuniConnect to replace isolation with belonging: role-aware workflows, recognition that travels with the work, and gentle AI nudges—in 12 weeks. Here's how I went from Flask basics to a production-ready engagement platform.
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October 17, 2025
Automation
Operations
Projects
After years of manually calculating overtime across multiple VMS platforms, I finally built the solution. Here's why existing tools don't solve this problem, and how I approached building VMSFlex Pay to automate one of the most tedious parts of contingent workforce management.
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Coming Soon
Operations
Scale
From 100 to 1,000 Contractors: Lessons in Scaling Operations
The processes that work at 100 contractors completely break at 500. Here's what I learned about building scalable operations during my time at Upwork, and why automation isn't optional at scale.
Coming Soon
System Migrations
Change Management
The System Migration Playbook: What 3 Migrations Taught Me
Led 3 major system migrations in 3 years at The Mom Project. The technical setup was never the hard part—it was the people side. Here's the framework that actually works for successful migrations.