I love zero-to-one.
At Block, I was the founding engineer hired to build the "c=" Lightning business. As a co-founder and principal architect at Fugue, I went from blank slate to production, leading design of the first iterations of what became Fugue's infrastructure-as-code SaaS. Building from scratch with a great team is the most fun for me. Even better if I get to learn a new domain!
I've operated at small and large scale.
At a place like Google, I operated with scales like Tbps, exabytes, and Mqps. Other times, I've worked with quantities and customers I could count on my fingers. They're all different phases of building a business, so small-scale matters too. I really enjoy getting the technology right for any scale.
I've led teams through hard reliability work.
At Block, I led the 5-person team behind Lightning Network infrastructure for Cash App and Square; ~1.5M transactions per month at peak, the world's 5th-largest routing node by capacity, 99.9% node uptime. Fast-moving tech, real money, production stakes. My roots in this kind of work began with the United States Coast Guard, where I learned to build safety-critical, highly reliable messaging systems.
I write and think about what I build.
During my Google years I wrote practical technical pieces published in the official Google Cloud Medium publication, on predicting GCS retrieval costs, building storage object inventories in BigQuery, and monitoring egress at scale. At Fugue, I led developer docs for a time as well. Writing is how I solidify my understanding, and how I share it.
