I'm practicing system architecture, based in Arizona. My path into software began after five years of studying and trading financial markets. I taught myself engineering while working full time, using small systems projects to turn abstract ideas into something I could test. Following their failures taught me to think more precisely; writing gave me a way to preserve what changed.
My work explores how complex systems are designed, how they fail, and what those failures reveal about the principles underneath them.
I build software, investigate open-source systems, and write about both: the artifacts and the larger questions they uncover. Not everything I write is technical. Some essays explore craft, participation, and the process of becoming serious about a discipline. Others examine the values, assumptions, and worldviews that shape how we build technology, and how technology, in turn, shapes us.