About
Welcome to my site! My blog represents a small subset of my interests. I am generally fascinated with just about every kind of technology and engineering, with my career being focused on Software Engineering.
Before transitioning into a technical career, I worked on my family’s farm. There, my main responsibilities were the tending of crops and managing of agristourism and restaurant operations. I found value in coding custom software for everything from agronomy and farm business management, to inventory planning.
MedStack invited me to join their team as the first full-time engineering hire in 2017, starting as a Software Developer. So today I primarily focus on compliance and security for startups handling protected health information. It’s a challenging ecosytem, and that makes it a lot of fun! The team has grown since then - and so have I!
I’m currently a Technical Lead, and in 2022 our engineering team reached a milestone of splitting into multiple teams. One team to address the primary customer value stream, and another to address the complexity of fully-automated cloud infrastructure operations.
My primary professional interests in the last 5 years include:
- DevOps culture
- Tools and practices in support of continuous deployment
- Public key infrastructure
- Cloud security operations
- Web application security
- Regulatory compliance for PII and PHI
I try not to take my work time into personal time (too much), but I still love engineering in many forms. Some of my personal interests are:
- Space exploration systems
- Robotics
- 3D Printing
- Botany and Gardening