Approach
A small portfolio of bets.
I run several things in parallel. Most are small. A few are larger. The arrangement is deliberate.
Single-bet careers depend on being right once. Multiple-bet practices depend on being right occasionally and recognizing it quickly when you are. The math favors the second.
Most of what's I spend my mind on will not become anything. That isn't a failure of the model — it's the model. The interesting question isn't whether each project succeeds, but whether the right one does, and whether I notice in time.
I'm allergic to scarcity pitches. The Shark Tank format trains founders to perform urgency at strangers; it trains audiences to confuse pressure for substance. Neither moves real work forward.
Writing
Where I think more clearly than I speak.
June 23, 2026
Your Highest and Best Use
There’s a term real-estate appraisers use — highest and best use — for the most valuable thing a piece of land could be doing. Turn that idea on yourself and it becomes the most demanding and the most hopeful thing you can know about your own potential.
June 2, 2026
The Proof We Settled For
Everyone treats “scientifically proven” as the strongest thing you can say about a matter. Actually, it’s the weakest kind of proof there is — and the men who fashioned it knew exactly what they were giving up.
May 16, 2026
The Medium Was Never the Work
The text was never the work. It was always a translation of intent, and the machines now learning to read intent directly are exposing a shape that was there all along.
Track Record
Twenty years of work, in shapes.
Abstracted by category rather than employer. Specifics available on request, not on a public page.
- Twenty-plus years in professional software engineering. Currently independent.
- Architecture and senior engineering across the .NET / SQL Server ecosystem and the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem (Vue, Nuxt, Supabase). Cloud fluency on Azure and AWS.
- Domains delivered: international ecommerce platforms, B2B SaaS, financial services systems, document automation, contract-driven greenfield builds.
- Roles held: senior engineer, principal engineer, architect, technical director, project lead — across solo, small-team, and large-enterprise contexts. Comfortable in agile and SAFe environments without being precious about either.
- Earlier specializations: statistical analysis, large-system integration, and data migration at scale.
- BS, Computer Information Systems Management. Honors.