About

Site Reliability Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable systems.

Currently a Founding Engineer at Tensor9, building an Any-Prem platform for deploying SaaS and AI applications anywhere - AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.

Experience

I've had the privilege of working at some of the world's most technically demanding companies:

• Amazon / AWS - Building cloud infrastructure at scale
• Uber - Reliability engineering for global transportation
• Twitter - Keeping the conversation going
• Meta - Infrastructure for billions of users

Side Projects

• Steelcut / Blip - Real-time incident management platform
• Hivearchive - E-commerce analytics for online sellers
• Genki Garb - E-commerce store (2019-2024)

Writing

From 1999 to 2002, I was a Contributing Editor at Linux.com, writing about the open source movement, Linux distributions, BSD, and the tech industry. Those 44 articles are now archived here.

This blog has been around since 2006. WordPress, then Blogofile, then Hugo, now Astro. The design is inspired by Dieter Rams and Swiss typography.