Hacker, open sorcerer, engineering leader.

My world is the screen. I'm obsessed with technology: the systems, the architecture, the problem-solving. That's the engine. But the dopamine hit is watching someone actually use the thing you built. Building products that people click, touch, swipe, tap, and genuinely get value from? That's what keeps me up at night. I've had this fascination since I was a kid, and over 20 years later it hasn't faded. If anything, it's gotten worse.

I started writing code at 11, hacking on game servers and solving problems nobody asked me to solve. That turned into a development internship at a local news station as a teenager, and I never looked back. I've shipped software across gaming, social media, travel, proptech, sports tech, field services, fintech, payments, e-commerce, hosting, cloud infrastructure, and media. From massive-scale consumer platforms serving hundreds of millions of users to scrappy startups where I was racking and stacking servers, writing deployment scripts, and acting as the entire infrastructure team. The breadth is the point. Every industry, every scale, every fire has shaped how I think about building things.

That exposure taught me something: everywhere you look, the same technological problems exist. The industry changes, the domain changes, but the architecture decisions, the scaling challenges, the trade-offs. They're universal. Once you see that, the problems themselves become the fun part, agnostic of any given industry. I love sitting down with stakeholders, understanding their pain, comprehending the real problem, then delivering tools that remove friction or unlock value they didn't know was possible, with the perspective of technology at heart.

I've been brought on to take companies to the next level: align with the right architecture, scale forward, and build the foundations that let teams ship with confidence. Today I'm a VP of Software Engineering. I lead engineering, DevOps, and architecture. I own delivery. But I'm still an architect at heart. I still write code, review PRs, debate system design, and get in the weeds when it matters. The best engineering leaders never lose touch with the craft, and I lead from the front.

After coming back to Utah from San Francisco, I founded the Salt Lake City Developers meetup because I missed having a room full of technical people to just rant with, drinks or not, about the things we're passionate about. Your favorite internet junkie with a love of all things digital and bacon-based.