now

Current work

• Leading technology for a manufacturing and ecommerce operation in Pittsburgh, balancing uptime, security, and AI-assisted workflows
• Scaling GitLab CI/CD pipelines and observability across 36 projects while keeping the platform simple enough to debug at 2am
• Hardening zero-trust architecture and closing security findings without slowing down developers

Learning & exploring

• Privacy-preserving AI patterns: building RAG systems that respect regulated data boundaries
• Deepening Zen practice through daily meditation and studying koans with my sangha
• Optimizing MySQL/Postgres performance for high-write manufacturing workloads
• Evaluating vector databases (pgvector, Qdrant, Weaviate) for production and search use cases

Side projects

• zenlog - Markdown-driven daily logging tool with encryption and local-first sync
• resumelens - AI-powered resume summarization (the tech powering this site's lens feature)
• Helping a meditation community migrate to privacy-focused collaboration tools

Availability

Open to fractional CTO work, security consulting, and AI implementation projects starting Q1 2026. Prioritizing manufacturing, ecommerce, and privacy-conscious organizations.

Not currently taking seeking: full-time roles

Schedule a conversation if you want to explore working together.

Reading

Technical: Rust Design Patterns (https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/)

Zen: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Suzuki), The Three Pillars of Zen (Kapleau)

Recreation: The Heart the Knows (Webber, Imogen)