About

I'm a senior full stack engineer and architect. I've been writing software since 1991 and working with Ruby on Rails since 2006, from the database up to the interface.

Most of my work is joining a team and making its product better while it keeps shipping. I've taken a global membership platform from zero to production, led a new product from prototype to launch, and designed a two way email system that files replies and invoices on its own. I've worked with distributed teams across time zones. I also started and ran a B2B software company, so I care about what the code does for the business.

Rails is where I'm strongest, but I'm not tied to it. I pick up new stacks fast, and right now I'm building mobile apps in Flutter and React Native. I build with AI every day. I wrote agentic:guild , an open source framework that gives AI coding agents a real engineering process: approved plans before code, tests first, architecture rules that are enforced, and human approval before risky steps. It's how I move quickly without leaving a mess.