I'm an Engineering Director at CrabNebula, one of the organizations behind the Tauri project.

Outside of work, I'm an avid hockey player, a parent to both humans and pets, and I volunteer for a state-wide search and rescue organization. Like many, I struggle with a wide range of mental health issues and rely heavily on screen readers. Over the last few months, I've been out on FMLA, but am excited and enthusiastic to return back to work.

When it comes to programming languages, I very much fall into the camp of "use the right tool for the job". Since starting my career on the front-end development side of the world, I'm fluent with JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript, and many other variants we've seen throughout the years. Since then, I've picked up a few more systems programming languages, including Go and Rust.

I recently adopted cognative, a simplified technology stack that I've been developing to reduce the technical requirements for smaller organizations to own their own Business Intelligence and Operations (what I'm calling BIO) technology stacks. It does this by collapsing the traditional "Business Intelligence" and "Operations" verticals into a single, common stack that offers a centralized location for ALL your information.

Cognative is composed of three systems: ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

Over the last 6 years, I've accumulated a lot of experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production, overseeing large scale migrations to the platform, as well as having hands-on experience deploying and maintaining systems running on it. For smaller projects where a cloud provider may not be available, I enjoy the k3s ecosystem. Outside Kubernetes, I'm really interested in going a bit deeper on the Aurae project to explore it's potential for small-board systems.

Deploying systems to production is always fun. I have been a big fan of the ArgoCD project for a while but found it to be a bit overkill for the cases I'm in these days. For now, I just rely on Terraform to drive Helm releases, but look forward to being able to leverage ArgoCD once again.

In general, small-board computer projects (such as the Raspberry Pi) make me really excited about possible opportunities. I've always enjoyed tinkering with things throughout my life and the Raspberry Pi is a great tool to do just that. And finally, I like to take photos for the projects I'm working on (especially when hardware is involved). So I recently bought a Fujifilm X-T20 and have been absolutely loving it.

All of my projects adopt the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.