About
The practitioner behind the field manual.
Shepard
Data & Platform Engineer · AI Governance
Data and platform engineer responsible for production systems that process petabytes of healthcare pricing data – sole owner of critical infrastructure where downtime isn't an option and regulatory deadlines don't move.
I've shipped AI agent infrastructure, migrated pipelines from Spark to Trino, rewrote critical paths from Python to Rust, and spent enough nights debugging unsupervised agents to know that the governance layer isn't optional – it's the first thing you should build.
This blog is the field manual I needed before I could write it.