• On the Ethics of Ambiguity

  Simone de Beauvoir's portrait of defective existential attitudes, and how they haunt the memory of youth.
• Nixon Agonistes: A Book Review

  Rank punditry in the form of a book review of the book "Nixon Agonistes" by Garry Wills.
• Get the Fuck Off of GitHub.

  My 15-20 years of open-source contributions and credibility were erased by GitHub without explanation or recourse. Move to sr.ht.

• Jan2026 - Now
  EnChannel Medical, Inc.
  Senior Build Engineer (Backend)
  • Reduced medical-device software build times from ~60 minutes to ~5 minutes (~12x) by re-architecting the build pipeline and distributing work across a fleet of self-hosted runners.
  • Containerized the build toolchain in Docker for deterministic builds across developer workstations and CI — driving toward full byte-level reproducibility for IEC 62304 verification and FDA submission.
  • Implemented SPDX SBOM generation and audit in CI covering every release artifact, aligned with FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance and traceable to upstream CVEs.
  • Designed and operate CI/CD systems with deliberate focus on security and efficiency, distributing builds across self-hosted infrastructure under chain-of-custody and access-control constraints appropriate for regulated device software.
  • Operate within FDA-regulated and IEC 62304-aligned medical-device software lifecycle constraints — traceability, reproducibility, and audit-readiness across every stage of the build and release pipeline.
• Jan2024 - Jan2026
  Independent Research & Applied Security
  Self-Directed Study

  Operated distributed scraping infrastructure for clients remotely. Locally, spent time with organizations advancing free and open-source software, particularly Futo.

• Jul2021 - Jun2024
  Automatiq
  Senior Software Engineer
  • Drove ~$5M annual revenue attributable to capture-rate improvements I owned on the scraping platform.
  • Joined as the second platform hire; rebuilt a fragile collection setup from a handful of EC2 boxes into an enterprise-grade distributed platform sustaining 10M+ daily collection events across Ticketmaster, AXS, and SeatGeek.
  • Reverse-engineered and bypassed Akamai Bot Manager, PerimeterX, and Datadome, maintaining capture rates through repeated vendor updates that took competitors offline.
  • Led the migration from monolithic EC2 to containerized AWS Fargate, cutting infra cost ~60% via auto-scaling and reducing deploy cycles to <5 minutes.
  • Designed the company’s “transferless” resale primitive, eliminating the ownership-transfer step that gated competitor business models and opening a new revenue line.
  • Built fault-tolerant, event-driven pipelines on SQS + Lambda + DynamoDB with circuit breakers, exponential backoff, and DLQ-based retry; owned on-call rotation for the scraping platform.
  • Stood up observability stack (CloudWatch, Datadog, Logflare), establishing a 1-2 hour post-detection MTTR on a platform that previously had no formal incident-response baseline.

• Ticketing Platform Automation

  Rebuilt the scraping infrastructure at Automatiq, the #1 automation platform in ticket resale, scaling from static EC2 instances to a distributed system processing 10M+ tickets daily.
• MINDWISE.IO

  Co-founded and built a real-time fraud prevention platform for financial institutions — dark web monitoring, compromised card intelligence, and proactive threat detection at scale.
• Astro Analytics

  Developed a primitive but functional platform for enhanced OSINT data collection, analysis, and visualization. Integrated with LexisNexis for comprehensive data sourcing.

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