Benjamin Arce
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Engineering logs / decisions, lessons, fixes.

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Film Portfolio Build

Next.js 15 + Cloudinary video portfolio: what shipped, what broke, and the patterns that stuck.

Jan 2026

This site: turning a portfolio into something honest and alive

Next.js + Vercel, built as a log not a brochure.

Dec 27, 2025

LATAM Inventory Health Dashboard finally stops breaking

Power BI + automation: safety stock vs on-hand, green/yellow/red semantics.

Dec 05, 2025

Thesis: from ‘I want to do semiconductors’ to a real chokepoint model

CoWoS/HBM chokepoint → tri-objective model (cost, resilience, carbon).

Nov 10, 2025

Manufacturing Cost Intelligence System becomes a real thinking tool

Slider-driven portfolio P&L thinking tool (honest about what’s V1).

Jul 20, 2025

Cross-Border Fleet Optimizer actually starts working

OR-Tools + OSRM: cost-first routing that starts behaving like a real tool.

Jun 15, 2025