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 making SoftwareDB because I'm genuinely obsessed with software tools. Text editors, terminal emulators, browsers, IDEs, I care about this stuff and there's no good place to see what people are running and what they're switching to. The SoftwareDB waitlist is open and I'm deep in the MVP.

I'm also 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.