About

I’m a backend-focused full-stack engineer in Maine. I build features across the stack, but my favorite work is the plumbing between services: distributed messaging and event-driven architecture.

At Defendify, I moved our service-to-service gateway from HTTP to NATS: I wrote the spec, built the new engine, and led the migration of other services onto it. I also wrote the shared NATS request-reply library our Node services use.

I led the move of our document generation service to CloudEvents. That first needed a claim check: large payloads go to S3, and only a reference travels over NATS. I’ve also added OpenTelemetry tracing to a Go service in our security event pipeline and contributed to open-source tools like slack-go/slack.

I came to software the long way: aviation school, commercial AV installs, IT at an MSP, then freelance work before Defendify. I care about clean architecture, the Unix philosophy, and simple code the next person can maintain.

Outside of work, I fly gliders and serve as a board member and webmaster for the Franconia Soaring Foundation. For almost a year, I co-led the working group that met nearly every week to plan how we’d use our new training and operations center, and I helped plan and install its network cabling.

Home is a small farm in Maine with my wife, our greyhounds, cats, and horses. I love to tinker and get my hands dirty: cars, ATVs, mowers, woodworking, taking things apart to fix them, and the garden.

More detail on the Experience page.