Rowan Richards is a senior backend engineer specialising in C#/.NET and distributed systems — building the APIs, data layers, and services products depend on. Portfolio, projects, and writing.https://rowan-richards.dev/https://rowan-richards.dev/blog/database-backed-filesystem-dokan/https://rowan-richards.dev/blog/database-backed-filesystem-dokan/Why we built our own database-backed Windows filesystem for legal documents, how a user-mode driver made it possible, and the war stories — including Microsoft Office — along the way.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT