About
The shape of the work has always been the same.
Take a complex platform. Make it land safely in someone else's hands. That is what I have been doing for twenty-nine years, first at Dell as a technical architect on the solutions engineering side, now at F5 in the seat of a Senior Solutions Engineer dedicated to the United States Army.
I live in Cedar Park, Texas. Most weeks involve more conversations than code: with program offices, with platform owners, with engineers who have to live with whatever architecture survives the meeting. The favorite ones still come down to the same small set of questions. What does the customer actually need. What is the simplest design that gives it to them. Where will it break first.
Outside work
Endurance
Running and triathlon. The training is the point as much as the racing. Cedar Park is good for both.
The aquarium
Fish keeping. There is something honest about a tank: the system either works or it does not, and the fish will tell you which.
The print bed
3D printing. Mostly functional parts, occasional vanity. The printer is a useful daily reminder that the gap between idea and physical object is now small.
The markets
Active in equities, options, and the slow study of how capital actually moves. A long-running side education.
The keyboard
Building software with AI tooling. This site is one of those projects. There are more on /building.