whoami

I build software that leaves the building.

Staff engineer and tech lead. I’ve run engineering teams and I still ship the hard parts. The software I build runs where I can’t log in and fix it, so it has to install cleanly, upgrade in place, and prove it is what it says it is.

  • 12 yrsshipping production systems
  • 2 orgsengineering teams led
  • 500k+artifacts with SLSA 3 provenance
  • $20Mcontract a release helped land

ls shipped/ --since=2026-05

Five months at NetBox Labs.

  1. identityKeycloak as the identity layer for the new platform apps. OIDC, SAML, and LDAP customers on one setup.
  2. routingEvery install moved off ingress-nginx to Traefik and the Gateway API: Helm chart, operator, and installer together. Customers upgraded in place.
  3. releasesRequired checks, branch protection, and automation that shows evidence each gate passed.
  4. teamStandardized the team's Claude Code skills and pointed QA at automated regression coverage.

cat leadership.md

I lead and I still write the code.

Built teams

Hired and led MixMode's senior Scala team. Grew LogicMonitor's team 300% in six months and halved time-to-effectiveness.

Raised the floor

Release gates that show their evidence. Shared workflows the whole team uses, so good habits don't depend on memory.

Closed the deal

A Helm chart and release process that helped land a $20M government defense contract.

cat ai.md

Fast before AI. Faster with it. Same bar.

I run agents in parallel, in sandboxes, behind the same review gates a human PR gets. The speed is new. The standards aren't.

  • claude-sandbox · autonomous runs in Docker and git worktrees, with quality gates, ending in a PR
  • claude-review-code · review with 12 specialist subagents
  • team skills at NetBox Labs · scoping, release readiness, on-call handoff, automated review

git log --career

Career

  1. 2026–now
    NetBox Labs · Staff SWE, Tech Lead (on-prem)

    Identity, routing, and release gates for software customers run themselves.

  2. 2024–2026
    Chainguard · Staff Software Engineer

    Java and JavaScript rebuilders. SLSA 3 provenance for 500k+ artifacts.

  3. 2022–2024
    MixMode · Director of Engineering

    100 Gb/s ingestion pipeline, and the team that built it.

  4. 2020–2022
    Anchore · Senior Software Engineer

    Kubernetes inventory that cut image analysis time 60%.

  5. 2014–2020
    LogicMonitor · Lead SWE, Eng Manager

    Kafka and Quarkus pipeline at 2M+ metrics a day. Grew the team 300%.

full resume →

cat principles.txt

How I work

Kind and direct.
I say the hard thing early, and I make it easy to say it back to me.
Data over instinct.
Gut feel gets a vote, not a veto.
Build the thing that builds the thing.
Leverage lives in tooling that multiplies what a team can do.
Simple until proven otherwise.
The right amount of complexity is what the problem actually requires.