Forrest Andrew Jones Insights

Systems and Software

The systems behind the work: follow up architecture, public filing data, and lessons from student era projects.

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AuthorForrest Andrew Jones
  1. Building an investor follow up system

    An architecture level description of the system that runs after a conversation ends: a contact store with stages defined by actions, a sequencing engine, the calling layer, and the record of who received which version of what.

    6 min
  2. Reading public filing data at scale: the EDGAR data tool

    How the public filing system is actually organized, how a small tool can read the Form D notices in it every week, and what that data can and cannot tell you.

    6 min
  3. What building ROAM and The Blessing Machine taught me

    Two student era applications, a venue booking service and a donation platform, read back from their repositories years later: what the data models got right, what the code got wrong, and what carried into the systems I build now.

    6 min