Professional2021 — present
A processor built from the ground up
Kernel, task scheduler and communication protocol written from nothing, in C and Ada, now in production and distributed globally.
In production. Globally distributed.
CAdaRTOSBare metal
Engineer. Scientist.
Occasionally underwater.
I'm a product security engineer in St. Louis. I spend my working hours on Kubernetes, Azure, and cloud infrastructure, and the rest of my brain on machine learning, a document platform nobody asked me to build, and a master's degree at the University of Illinois.
Outside of that: scuba diving, rock climbing, hiking, and making things that aren't software. I like problems where the consequences are real.
Open to consulting and interesting problems
4+ yrs
Shipping mission-critical software
98.8%
Gesture classifier accuracy
10×
Faster integration test cycle
4×
Fewer engineering hours on porting
How I can help
Three kinds of problem I'm genuinely good at
Everything below is work I do now, not work I did once. If your problem looks like one of these, we should talk.
01
Kubernetes & cloud
Platform engineering, Kubernetes operations, cloud-native systems, and the boring-but-critical details of reliability, automation, and production support. If it has to run at scale without surprise failures, this is the work I do daily.
02
Applied machine learning
Classifiers and NLP pipelines that ship — data preparation through evaluation through deployment. I care more about the failure modes than the leaderboard.
03
Developer experience
Build systems, CI pipelines, test harnesses and internal tools. Most teams are one good tool away from moving twice as fast, and nobody has time to build it.
Selected work
A few things worth showing
Some of it shipped to production on hardware I'll never see again. Some of it is a side project my wife asked for. Both taught me something.
Capstone2021
Sign Language Interpretation System
Control any smart device with American Sign Language — hand tracking, a gesture classifier and grammar correction, wired together over a client-server link.
98.8% accuracy across 14 hand gestures
PythonTensorFlowComputer visionCNN
Research2025
Patient Care Portal Triage
An NLP pipeline that routes patient portal messages to the right team and surfaces relevant evidence-based research while they wait for a human.
Classifies sentence embeddings into care teams, then retrieves supporting research
PyTorchEmbeddingGemmaNLPInformation retrieval
Writing
Notes from the workbench
The old site was a single 41,000-character index.html. Every change was archaeology. Here is what I replaced it with and why the constraint was maintenance, not design.
#astro#web#tooling
Let's connect
Have something hard that has to work?
Contract work, a full-time role, or a problem you want a second opinion on — I read every message and reply to the ones that aren't a template.
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