// Full-stack engineer exploring the edges
// of distributed systems, developer tooling,
// and the craft of clean architecture.
On fatherhood, moving to new cities, the books that rewired my thinking, and the quiet rituals that keep the chaos at bay.
Read Personal Posts →Cold starts were killing us. Here's how we dropped p99 latency from 2.3s to under 80ms by rethinking where code runs.
infrastructure performanceConsolidating 23 microservice repos into a single Turborepo workspace. What broke, what healed, and the tooling that made it possible.
tooling monorepoA deep dive into building a Terraform file parser that actually handles nested blocks, expression evaluation, and module references.
go terraformSomewhere between the fifth productivity app and the color-coded calendar, I realized I'd turned my life into a sprint backlog. Here's what happened when I stopped.
reflectionShe wobbled. She fell. She got back up. And at some point on that cracked sidewalk, I realized this wasn't really about the bike at all.
familyNot the usual "business book" list. These are the odd, sideways reads that quietly rewired how I approach problems, teams, and craft.
books growth20+ years building software across the full stack. Currently focused on developer tooling, infrastructure automation, and helping teams ship faster without burning out. Open source contributor. Believer in boring technology for exciting problems.
Father, reader, reluctant runner, and occasional cook. I write about the messy, non-optimizable parts of life because they matter more than any codebase. Based in the Southeast, transplanted from everywhere.