Laurance Walden | Backend Engineer & Tech Lead

About Me

I'm a .NET backend engineer with 12 years of experience designing and building scalable systems in Microsoft Azure. I thrive on solving complex problems—whether that means architecting resilient integrations, debugging tricky production issues, or optimizing workflows for dramatic performance gains.

I'm actively exploring the emerging Agentic Engineering space including Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Workflows, and Context Engineering.

Interests

Architecture & Design: Event-driven microservices, APIs, and system integrations
AI & Agentic: MCP, Agentic Workflows, Context Engineering
Problem Solving: Performance optimization, debugging, and turning unreliable systems into stable ones

Personal Projects & Explorations

AI Agent Minder

A governance and lifecycle control framework for Claude Code. AIAgentMinder adds persistent auditable memory, architectural decision tracking, risk-aware testing, and structured planning to transform Claude from helpful assistant into a production-ready project engine. Deploy AI-assisted projects that stay organized, maintainable, and accountable across sessions.

Crafting how to structure AI-assisted development with persistent session context, guardrails for agentic coding, and efficient token usage.

Claude Code AI Tooling Context Engineering Developer Tools

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Airdrop Architect

Telegram-first airdrop intelligence platform built with C#/.NET 8 and Azure serverless. Aggregates on-chain eligibility signals and off-chain points data, then delivers proactive path-to-eligibility guidance through scalable microservices and webhook-driven workflows.

Exploring blockchain API integrations and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Azure AI Search to power citation-backed protocol parsing, explainable recommendations, and criteria-change alerts.

C# .NET 8 Azure Functions Cosmos DB Azure AI Search Telegram Bot Webhooks Web3

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Conway's Game of Life

Interactive cellular automaton simulation built with JavaScript and HTML Canvas. Features preset patterns, step-through controls, and a toroidal grid.

Experimenting by asking AI to refactor a 10+ year-old student project, eliminating all third party dependencies and modernizing for today's web using a single-paragraph prompt.

JavaScript HTML Canvas CSS

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Writing

Co-Developing AIAgentMinder with Claude — Part 1: Opus 4.6 Review

For a few weeks I’ve been working on a tool, AIAgentMinder, to help me use Claude Code more effectively. Naturally I figured I should use Claude to improve the tool I’m using to improve Claude. Only makes sense.

Read on Medium Feb 11, 2026

Get in Touch

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