• FYI: This is a living document and it'll likely change by the next time you read it. It, like myself, is constantly changing based on what's happening in my life and what I'm looking for. The last time it changed was December 1st, 2020.

Hey friend - thanks for taking a look at my little corner of the web. I'm an experienced software engineer, people manager, and entrepreneur, generally located on the West Coast of America.

I've been building software and startups my whole life, and I've been spending the last twenty-five years making mistakes, learning from them, and doing my best to improve the next time around.

Most recently, I've led the Engineering department at a ~50-person startup in Seattle working to make a positive change in cancer patients' lives, and working in the SRE function at a publicly traded identity management company.

What I'm interested in;

Things I've been up to recently;

• I've done heavy distributed systems architecture and coding.
• I've done work in the IoT space, focusing my efforts on device orchestration and provisioning, big data pipelines, and the user experience around failure recovery.
• I've been experimenting with transmitting data reliably over incredibly lossy links with latencies measured in days or weeks.
• I've been the Director of Engineering at a growth-stage startup.
• I've been a technical co-founder of a handful of small startups - two of which resulted in positive exits.

My current research spaces include;

• Coding theory and implementations, including LDPC, Turbo, and Polar codes.
• Multi-party asymmetric key encryption schemes.
• CRDT vs OT data structures and databases.
• Late data binding and secure-by-default data storage schemes.