Relay — a self-healing data pipeline
A fault-tolerant ingestion pipeline that cut data loss to near-zero and made backfills a one-command affair.
View case →Engineer · Photographer · Writer
I build calm, considered software — and photograph the quiet moments in between.
I'm a systems engineer who cares about craft: legible code, honest interfaces, and tools that get out of the way. Off the clock, I'm usually somewhere with a camera.
About
For the last decade I’ve worked on the unglamorous middle of the stack — the queues, pipelines and platforms that quietly hold products together. I like problems that reward patience, and systems that are still understandable a year later.
This site is my home base: a few projects worth showing, notes I write to think more clearly, and an ever-growing archive of photographs.
Certifications
All credentials →AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web ServicesCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing FoundationHashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorpGoogle Professional Cloud Architect
Google CloudSelected projects
All projects →Atlas — an internal design system
A small, opinionated component library that unified eight internal tools and halved UI build time.
View case →Field Notes — an offline-first journal
A tiny, local-first note app for the outdoors — no account, no cloud, works with no signal.
View case →Latest writing
All posts →In praise of legible systems
The best compliment a system can earn is that a newcomer understood it in an afternoon. A short argument for legibility …
Why I still shoot film in a very digital job
Thirty-six frames is a constraint, and constraints are where attention lives. On slowness as a deliberate practice.
The two-minute deploy
How we took a deploy from twenty nervous minutes to two boring ones — and why boring was the goal.