Twin Cities born & raised, I work-in-place as a staff software engineer for a mental healthcare provider in the value-based care space focused on providing care for patients with serious mental illness and their caregivers.

I like to work with a lot of different types of software, platforms, languages, and frameworks. I've worked on embedded systems, operating systems, and developer tooling, to product teams building complex systems with Ruby on Rails and large UI applications on the web with Ember.js. I spent some time wrangling complexity in large Rails applications and running "Rails At Scale", and sat on a developer experience team developing tools and processes to accelerate product engineers. I've also sat on infrastructure teams building & managing production cloud infrastructure and doing site reliability work. Getting to work on software products from the OS level of the stack all the way up to where the user interacts particularly excites me.

On the side, I enjoy hacking on Rust stuff, parsers and developer tools in Crystal, and fumbling my way through writing, drawing, and building a point-and-click adventure game. I'm also fond of compilers, operating systems, structured concurrency, reverse engineering, poking fun at things, playing around with new infrastructure automation tools, and over-engineering my home network for funsies.

Outside of software, I'm an amateur pixel artist, slightly-above-average writer, just-scraping-by dog wrangler, and teetering-on-overwhelmed homeowner. You can also find me traveling, trialling new restaurants, or trying to recreate a goulash I had once (I keep a photo of it stored on my phone and look at it longingly sometimes.)

Below is a non-exhaustive list of some buzzwords I've worked with.