About Me
I've spent 25 years building systems at places where failure isn't an option — Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis, healthcare platforms serving millions of government employees, trading infrastructure processing hundreds of millions of messages a day. The through-line isn't the institutions. It's the instinct to find the hard problem and go after it.
That instinct doesn't clock out. You'll find me on a race track, responding to an emergency call, or deep in a personal project that has nothing to do with my day job — and everything to do with why I'm good at it.
On the Track
I'm a competitive race car driver and have held a national-level High Performance Driving instructor certification since 2010, working with roughly 50 students across SCCA, EMERA, and PCA events. Racing teaches you things about performance, risk, and real-time decision-making that no classroom does. The margin between fast and crashed is razor thin — and managing that margin under pressure is a skill that transfers.
In the Firehouse
I serve as a volunteer firefighter — which means on-call around the clock, responding to an average of 400 calls a year. Teamwork, trust, and clear communication aren't soft skills in that environment — they're the difference between a good outcome and a bad one. It's reinforced my belief that the best technical teams operate the same way: clear roles, shared situational awareness, no ego when lives are on the line.
In the Garage
When I'm not on track or on a call, I'm building. Currently: a multi-GPU AI infrastructure stack, a book — supported by a framework I designed specifically for writing long-form technical content as structured, version-controlled code — and Talewell, a mobile interactive fiction platform I built so my daughter could interact with stories as I read them to her. These aren't hobbies. They're how I stay sharp — and sometimes, how I spend time with the people I love.
What I Believe
Good technology is invisible. It does exactly what it needs to do, exactly when it needs to do it, and gets out of the way. Building that kind of technology requires precision, humility, and a willingness to go back and do it right when the first version isn't good enough. That's true whether you're optimizing a FIX engine or finding the limit of a car at speed.
Let’s Work Together
If you're building something hard, I'd like to hear about it. Get in touch.
