Contextwright · Mike Ruthruff
Years deep in data platforms and analytics, now focused on AI that handles the slow work and surfaces what people were missing.
What I do
Not just the dashboards. The digging, the cross-checking, the first read on what's actually going on — work that used to sit on one person.
Questions that needed someone who knew the data and the schema by heart. The system carries that context now, so more people can just ask.
Nobody gets replaced. The people already there get the leverage to ask bigger questions and get further on their own.
Work Experience
Built a cloud-native analytics platform (AWS/Lambda/S3/dbt/Snowflake) with AI-driven analysis that provided player insights, reviewed data quality, identified instrumentation gaps and automated reporting. Used by the Data Insights team to expand team capabilities and provide faster, more accurate insights to stakeholders. Pivoted the platform’s own development to be spec-driven and automated.
On my own time I develop an AI system that automates the development of trading strategies and quantitative research. Something I actually rely on. Private project; happy to walk through it as a work sample.
Built and ran the data platform for Destiny — 1M+ concurrent players, zero outages. Later owned the cloud-bursting of Destiny 2’s real-time AI simulations onto AWS, leading a team of engineers responsible for delivering the solution, which spanned two cloud regions and an on-prem data center.
Worked on the SQL Server relational engine and enterprise customer advisory (SQLCAT, Azure CAT) — performance and scalability work that shipped customer feedback across four major releases.
Writing
Notes on building with AI. Stuff I've learned along the way.
The obvious fix was to hand my assistant an API credential. That was the wrong fix — and the gap between obvious and right is the whole point.
Not all data is the same kind of data, so it shouldn't all live in one store. A per-artifact routing pattern for multi-agent systems.
Give an AI agent a Notion connection and it'll dump everything in. The real work is teaching it what not to put there.
About
Contextwright was created and maintained by Mike Ruthruff. Most of my career has been spent building data and analytics platforms. I worked in customer facing roles, led engineering teams and helped start-ups get up and running. Passionate about using AI as a facilitator to build solutions that used to require large teams and long timelines. I’m focused on what AI can do to streamline processes and enhance productivity. Based near Seattle.
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