I'm a technical manager and systems architect in government. My day job is designing large scale systems on ServiceNow and AWS. The kind of systems that regularly process 15+ million records and quietly keep federal agencies running. I lead a team of twenty, but I still design and write code every day.

I built internal tools at NIH during the early days of COVID, led engineering on a security tool that cut ATO timelines from three months to two weeks, and was the lead architect on a reusable component library used across dozens of project teams at CACI. The balance has shifted toward system design, technical governance, and making sure my people have what they need, but I never stopped building.

Outside of work, I'm working on Explodex, AI software that detects and identifies explosives in photos and video. We've built a full data pipeline with provenance tracking that feeds into our training data, and the mission is simple: significantly reduce cognitive load for the people who need to defuse bombs when it matters most.

I'm based in Maryland. When I'm not at a screen I'm racing cyclocross, running 5Ks and 10Ks, or lifting. I recently went keto. I have a Saint Bernard who is not on keto. I'm unreasonably obsessed with cables — ethernet, VGA, SATA, every type of USB — because you never know when you'll need one. And I will die on the hill that ThinkPads are the best laptops ever made, even though I use a MacBook that I'm terrified of scratching.