Engineer, hacker, entrepreneur. Drawn to complex systems and the interesting ways they fail.
I spent years keeping distributed systems honest: disaster recovery and cross-region replication on GitLab Geo, PostgreSQL when it hurts, infrastructure that has to survive its operators. These days I build my own things.
Also curious about cybersecurity, macroeconomics, and the human mind, roughly in that order, depending on the day.
An AI health companion. Food, training, recovery, one calm place.
Sandboxes where AI agents run code: Firecracker microVMs on demand, a Rust orchestrator, an Elixir backend.
Instant AI analysis for business ideas. Passed 150,000 users.
Customer engineering for the accounts that page you at night; spent a lot of time on monitoring and keeping a large monolith shippable.
Started in self-managed Support, ended up on the Geo team: disaster recovery, cross-region replication, and keeping Postgres and self-hosted instances alive.
Senior web dev at Dotfive, shipping for the UK government and big media across clouds. Before that, co-founded Digitally Solid: bot detection at a million ad impressions a minute.
DEF CON CTF finalist (2018, 2021, 2022), plus most places with flags to capture. Play with WreckTheLine, top 8 worldwide in 2023. NixOS everything, emacs & vim config from scratch.
Field notes on entrepreneurship: scaling teams, software, and agents, plus whatever survives the editing pass. First entries syncing soon.
“Be the change you want in the world.”