Articles and Case Studies

How I Cut Monthly AWS Costs by ~33% — Without Slowing Delivery

Cloud Cost Optimisation — A Case Study

A third of our monthly cloud spend was quietly leaking away — not through bad decisions, but through drift. Here's how I found it, fixed it, and made the savings stick, without slowing a single delivery.

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A Google Sheets+AppsScript based Live Sprint Tracker, Built on Top of JIRA (can be applied to Any Ticket Management Tool)

Agile Delivery · Capacity & Automation

One view that answers the questions a board can't: is anyone over-committed, are we delivering what we planned, and is reality matching the estimate? Built on JIRA's data — capacity, effort, and live compliance flags in one place.

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The Simple List That Made Me Reliable

Productivity · Project Discipline

The hardest part of the job isn't the hard part — it's the small follow-ups that quietly slip. So I built a deliberately simple action tracker that ages what's stale and chains closed items to the work they spawn.

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How My Team 4x'd Our Story-Point Output with AI
DevOps · Agile Delivery · AI Automation

Outage debugging, database restores, and ad-hoc requests were quietly eating our sprints. So we built AI agents and reusable skills to absorb the repetitive work — and measured the gain honestly, story points with vs. without AI. The planned-work output roughly quadrupled.

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