About

Engineer at heart. Well seasoned — which is a polite way of saying I've been around long enough to value straight talk over spin.

I cut my coding teeth on a Commodore 64, though my first computer was technically a TRS-80 CoCo II — affectionately known as the Trash 90. Somewhere between then and now, I turned that into a career.

I've worked as an engineer and leader at companies of nearly every size — from four-person startups where you are the infrastructure team, to one of the largest tech companies on the planet where the infrastructure team has its own infrastructure team. I've led engineering organizations, shipped products that serve millions, and spent more time than I'd like to admit in architecture review meetings.

Since 2016 I've been working with machine learning and AI — back when you still had to explain to people that no, it's not magic, it's linear algebra, stats, and a terrifying amount of data. These days the conversation has shifted, but the fundamentals haven't.

When I'm not working, I'm usually writing code anyway — or making music, or pointing a snowboard downhill and hoping for the best.

This site is where I write about software engineering, technology, and the craft of building things that work.

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