Hey y'all! 👋

I've been creating software professionally for the last 16 years, but my first experience writing code goes back to my school days when I was just 10 years old.

I have a Master's Degree in Software Engineering and my expertise spans multiple industries: software developer tools, e-commerce, and automotive. My focus over the last 9 years has been around the Identity and Access Management space, building the authentication and authorization platform for large-scale publicly-traded organizations.

I generally gravitate towards technical leadership positions, leading engineering teams to deliver solutions to complex business-critical engineering problems, with special attention to the intersection between incremental delivery, industry best practices, and quality.

Some of the highlights of my career include the creation of large-scale, highly available, and fault-tolerant authentication and authorization services, and the refactoring and generalization of conditional access controls in an extremely large monolithic codebase in a fully distributed engineering team. I've built 3 different authorization services in 3 different companies 😄

I also have several years of experience working as a maintainer of open-source projects and getting involved with their communities, first in the Eclipse Ecosystem and later with the SpiceDB project, an open-source Google Zanzibar implementation.

I've worked fundamentally with Go, Java, and Ruby programming languages, but those who've worked with me know I am genuinely passionate about learning about software engineering technologies in general 🤓

Music is my other passion: I've put thousands of hours into supporting the underground scene and doing music production and engineering. I've been a gaming enthusiast ever since I first played an arcade machine as a kid.