About Me¶

Staff+ platform engineer, nearly twenty years in.

Now¶

Nearly two years in as DevOps Tech Lead at Lincoln Loop. Embedding with established companies in the energy sector, leading DevOps for AI-health startups — Terraform across AWS, Azure, and on-prem at production scale. Also one of the engineers behind AppPack, Lincoln Loop's platform for simplifying AWS deployments.

2022–2024¶

Two layoffs in close succession — Wayfair in 2022, then Dandy in early 2023. After that, I stepped back from full-time work to care for my then-wife through a brain tumor diagnosis and treatment, and to be present for our kids through what eventually became a divorce. I returned to consulting in late 2023 and joined Lincoln Loop in 2024.

I came out the other side grounded. Clearer about what matters, more careful about the teams I join, less inclined to mistake motion for progress.

Wayfair, 2015–2022¶

Seven years through the scale from ~$700M to ~$12B. Founding member of three platform teams there (InfraNext, Python Platforms, Dev Acceleration). Built the Docker image system that became the bedrock of every Python service — the platform grew to 900+ engineers. Early bets on Backstage, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Keycloak, and Artifactory, years before any of them were obvious.

On AI¶

All-in on agentic AI engineering. Claude Code is my daily driver. Built agentctl, a Go + tmux harness around it that lets me run multiple sessions in parallel across engagements.

Beyond work¶

Vermont. Mountain biking, snowboarding, hiking with my kids. A lot of soccer. Working remote since 2008. Dogs, cats, chickens, and hopefully goats someday.