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Essays on platform engineering, infrastructure automation, observability, and building software organizations that actually work. Practical, opinionated, and written from inside the problem.
Read the essays →I’ve spent twenty years getting very good at solving hard problems inside large engineering organizations — building platforms, leading teams, consolidating systems, and being the person you call when something important is failing or needs to scale.
That identity has served me well.
It has also been something I’ve had to look at more honestly.
I’m an engineering leader by trade and a systems thinker by instinct. I’m also someone who recently finished a personal album, who works on cars in his garage, who paints Warhammer miniatures badly, and who is somewhere in the middle of recovering parts of himself that a long career of being useful and dependable quietly set aside.
This site holds both of those things.
Essays on platform engineering, infrastructure automation, observability, and building software organizations that actually work. Practical, opinionated, and written from inside the problem.
Read the essays →Identity is a pre-release album about what happens when the systems that helped you survive begin to obscure the person underneath them. Six songs. Engineering as a language for something that has very little to do with engineering.
Listen →What I'm actually working on, reading, and thinking about at the moment. Updated occasionally and honest about it.
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