About.

Engineering leader. I write here about the work and the in-between — leading teams, building systems, and the AI shift happening in real time.

Most of what I do day-to-day lives at the intersection of engineering practice and product calls. I've spent over a decade moving between IC and leadership roles across architecture, distributed systems, infrastructure, and platform — and lately, building things on my own. The themes I keep coming back to:

• How engineering teams actually run, vs how they're written about.
• The line between shipping fast and shipping right — and why most of the disagreement here is really about risk tolerance, not technique.
• What AI tooling looks like when it holds up under real, sustained use — not demos, not press releases.
• Career arcs in tech: the asymmetric leap from senior engineer to lead, and the under-discussed move back down the ladder when leadership stops fitting.

Lately I'm building lognote (local audio transcription and summarization for Mac) and a few other things over on projects.

If you want to reach out — about anything — the form below is the best way. It doesn't go through Twitter or LinkedIn; it ends up in my inbox.