About

I grew up in a small town with no tech scene, no network, and no obvious path into engineering. I found my way in through stubbornness and curiosity, and those two things still drive most of what I do.

I've spent five years working on data platforms that were already in motion when I arrived: imperfect, critical, and worth understanding before touching. I genuinely prefer it. There's something more honest about working on systems that are already load-bearing: you can't pretend, you can't over-engineer, and you learn faster because the stakes are real. My best work has always been about removing things: a pipeline that went from four hours to twenty minutes, an orchestration that stopped taking down an entire chain when one piece failed. The goal is always a system that fewer people need to worry about.

I believe the hardest problems in engineering are human ones. A platform no one understands is a fragile platform, no matter how well it's built. That's why I care as much about transmission as I do about implementation: workshops, documentation, pair work. Not as a soft skill add-on, but as the actual job.

Outside of client work I build things for myself: a rules-based investment engine, a local RAG system, a password manager, a research tool. Not for polish: for the feeling of understanding something from the inside. This site is part of that.