About
How I work and why this log exists
About Me
Corey Roach
I'm a software engineer focused on backend systems, data modeling, and building reliable, scalable services. I enjoy simplifying complex workflows, improving performance, and designing systems I can reason about over time.
I care about understanding why things work and why they sometimes don't. I'm most engaged when working through ambiguity, testing assumptions, and leaving codebases in a better state than when I found them.
Purpose
This is a public log of the work I do in real time that captures what I build, the decisions I make, and the impact those decisions have. It keeps me accountable and creates a clear record of outcomes and reasoning.
It also provides context for how I approach problems and evaluate tradeoffs by making that process visible.
How It Works
Tickets
Each ticket represents a project, feature, investigation, or performance improvement. It captures the context, goals, technologies, status, and outcome.
Entries
Entries are the day-to-day logs: design decisions, thought processes, obstacles, and breakthroughs. They form a chronological, honest view of how solutions come together.
Postmortems
When work is completed, I consolidate what was learned, what worked, what didn't, and what measurable impact the change created.
Philosophy
I value being deliberate. To me, that means understanding systems well enough to explain the decisions behind them, the tradeoffs that were made, and the consequences that followed, not just that something was released.
This log is how I hold myself to that standard. Writing the work down forces clarity in my reasoning, exposes weak assumptions, and creates a record I can revisit as the systems, or my thinking, evolve over time.