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created: "2025-09-18"
lastUpdated: "2025-09-24T05:37:00"
contextDate: "2025-09-24"
status: "active"
priority: "high"
type: "freddie-mac-project"
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# 🏢 Dev Enclave Project

> [!tip] **Project Vision**: Build a framework for developers at Freddie Mac to do quick experiments in AWS

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## 📋 Project Overview

**Purpose**: Create a standardized framework that enables Freddie Mac developers to rapidly prototype and experiment with AWS services without complex setup or approval processes.

**Team**: Part of Freddie Mac's "brain trust" - recognized technical leadership group
- **Mike Ryan**: Project leader, boss's boss
- **Troy Larson**: Technical contributor and framework developer
- **Alexander Von Hahmann**: Team member (Alex)
- **Jim Thompson**: Team member

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## 🎯 Project Goals

### **Primary Objectives**
1. **Rapid Experimentation**: Enable quick AWS experiments without bureaucracy
2. **Standardized Framework**: Create reusable patterns and templates
3. **Developer Productivity**: Reduce time from idea to working prototype
4. **Knowledge Sharing**: Build institutional knowledge around AWS best practices

### **Success Metrics**
- **Time to First Experiment**: Reduce from weeks to hours
- **Developer Adoption**: Number of teams using the framework
- **Experiment Success Rate**: Percentage of experiments that become production features
- **Knowledge Transfer**: Documentation and training materials

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## 🚀 Current Status

### **Project Initiation**
- **Date**: September 17, 2025
- **Meeting**: Mike Ryan scheduled core team meeting
- **Recognition**: Team identified as Freddie Mac's "brain trust"
- **Excitement Level**: High - Troy is really excited about this project

### **Current Phase** (as of 2025-09-24)
- **Status**: Active development phase with major milestone achieved
- **Focus**: AWS Resource & Deployment Guide and code repository development
- **Progress**: Major deliverables completed with positive team feedback
- **Key Achievement**: Created comprehensive guide and repository, received positive feedback from Mike Ryan

### **Team Dynamics**
- **Mike Ryan**: Leading the project, recognizing technical talent
- **Alexander Von Hahmann**: Direct supervisor, supportive of innovation
- **Cultural Fit**: Mike's tech ADD, joking, and cursing style matches Troy's
- **Inclusion**: Troy feeling good about being part of the group
- **Recognition**: Being called part of the "brain trust" builds confidence

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## 🔧 Technical Framework

### **Current Focus: AWS Resource & Deployment Guide**
- **Objective**: Create comprehensive guide for dev teams to create AWS resources quickly
- **Purpose**: Provide clear guidance within security boundaries using Cloud Custodian rules
- **Approach**: Built guide around Cloud Custodian rules with automated documentation
- **Outcome**: Comprehensive guide and code repository with positive team feedback

### **Major Deliverables Completed** (2025-09-23)
- **AWS Resource & Deployment Guide**: https://confl.mdtc.itp01.p.fhlmc.com/spaces/~f406553/pages/537928394/Dev+Enclave+Resource+Deploymen
- **Code Repository**: https://bitbkt.mdtc.itp01.p.fhlmc.com/users/f406553/repos/dev-enclave-docs/browse
- **Team Feedback**: Positive recognition from Mike Ryan ("Nice!" with thumbs-up)

### **Core Components** (To Be Developed)
1. **AWS Environment Templates**: Standardized infrastructure patterns
2. **Development Workflows**: CI/CD pipelines for experiments
3. **Resource Management**: Cost tracking and optimization
4. **Security Patterns**: Compliant security configurations
5. **Documentation**: Best practices and examples

### **Target AWS Services**
- **Compute**: EC2, Lambda, ECS
- **Storage**: S3, RDS, DynamoDB
- **Networking**: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront
- **Security**: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager
- **Monitoring**: CloudWatch, X-Ray
- **Automation**: Cloud Custodian lambdas (current focus)

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## 📅 Timeline & Milestones

### **Phase 1: Foundation** (Completed)
- **Week 1**: Team alignment and requirements gathering ✅
- **Week 2**: Core framework architecture design ✅
- **Week 3**: Initial template development ✅

### **Phase 2: AWS Resource & Deployment Guide** (Completed - 2025-09-23)
- **Day 1**: Created comprehensive AWS Resource & Deployment Guide ✅
- **Day 1**: Built code repository for Cloud Custodian integration ✅
- **Day 1**: Received positive feedback from Mike Ryan ✅
- **Day 2**: Enhance guide and repository based on feedback (Today)

### **Phase 3: Development** (Next 4-6 weeks)
- **Week 4-6**: Framework implementation
- **Week 7-8**: Testing and validation
- **Week 9**: Documentation and training materials

### **Phase 4: Rollout** (Future)
- **Week 10-12**: Pilot program with select teams
- **Week 13-16**: Full rollout and adoption
- **Week 17+**: Continuous improvement and expansion

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## 🎯 Troy's Role & Contributions

### **Technical Leadership**
- **Framework Design**: Contributing to architecture decisions
- **AWS Expertise**: Leveraging existing AWS knowledge and experience
- **Best Practices**: Sharing knowledge from other projects (Daybreak AI, Fraud AI)

### **Project Management**
- **Team Collaboration**: Working with Mike, Alex, and Jim
- **Communication**: Regular updates and progress reports
- **Knowledge Transfer**: Documenting patterns and lessons learned

### **Strategic Value**
- **Career Development**: Building relationship with Mike Ryan
- **Technical Recognition**: Being part of the "brain trust"
- **Future Opportunities**: Potential for leadership roles

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## 🔗 Related Projects & Systems

### **Freddie Mac Projects**
- [[🏢 Fraud Research AI Agent]] - AWS experience and patterns
- [[🏢 AWS Auth CLI Project]] - Authentication and security tools
- [[🏢 Dev CLI Project]] - Development tooling and automation

### **Personal Projects**
- [[🌅 Daybreak AI Development]] - AWS deployment experience
- [[🏢 Beeminder Development]] - AWS migration knowledge

### **Team Members**
- [[Mike Ryan]] - Project leader and boss's boss
- [[Alexander Von Hahmann]] - Team member (Alex)
- [[Jim Thompson]] - Team member

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## 💡 Key Insights & Opportunities

### **Career Development**
- **Mike Ryan Relationship**: Building strong professional connection
- **Technical Leadership**: Recognized as part of Freddie Mac's technical elite
- **Project Ownership**: Leading framework development
- **Cultural Fit**: Matching Mike's technical and communication style

### **Technical Growth**
- **AWS Mastery**: Deepening expertise in enterprise AWS patterns
- **Framework Design**: Learning to build reusable developer tools
- **Team Leadership**: Collaborating with senior technical team
- **Knowledge Sharing**: Building institutional knowledge

### **Strategic Value**
- **Innovation**: Enabling rapid experimentation across Freddie Mac
- **Efficiency**: Reducing time from idea to prototype
- **Competitive Advantage**: Faster development cycles
- **Developer Experience**: Improving productivity and satisfaction

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## 📊 Success Factors

### **What's Working**
- **Team Recognition**: Being called part of the "brain trust"
- **Cultural Alignment**: Matching Mike's technical and communication style
- **Technical Expertise**: Existing AWS knowledge and experience
- **Project Excitement**: High motivation and engagement

### **Key Risks**
- **Scope Creep**: Framework becoming too complex
- **Adoption Challenges**: Getting teams to use the framework
- **Resource Constraints**: Balancing with other projects
- **Timeline Pressure**: Meeting aggressive development schedules

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## 🎯 Next Steps

### **Immediate Actions** (Today - 2025-09-24)
- [ ] **Enhance AWS Resource & Deployment Guide**: Improve guide based on Mike Ryan's feedback
- [ ] **Improve Code Repository**: Enhance functionality and automation capabilities
- [ ] **Test and Validate**: Ensure both components work effectively for dev teams
- [ ] **Prepare Status Update**: Update Alexander Von Hahmann on progress and achievements

### **Short-term Goals** (Next 2-4 weeks)
- [ ] **Automation Strategy Document**: Create comprehensive strategy based on inventory
- [ ] **Framework Prototype**: Build initial framework version
- [ ] **Template Development**: Create first AWS experiment templates
- [ ] **Documentation**: Start building user guides and examples

### **Long-term Vision** (3-6 months)
- [ ] **Framework Launch**: Deploy framework for Freddie Mac developers
- [ ] **Team Adoption**: Get multiple teams using the framework
- [ ] **Success Metrics**: Measure impact on development speed
- [ ] **Continuous Improvement**: Iterate based on user feedback

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*This project represents a significant opportunity for technical leadership, career development, and building lasting impact at Freddie Mac through innovative developer tools.*






