I’m a backend engineer who loves plants, novel solutions, reading, and learning.

I currently live in the mountains where I spend my time working remotely, training hard, and working towards a more ecologically-minded existence.

My Current Side Projects

  • Reading more.
  • Automation for my hydroponics garden (w / hardware)
  • Re-wiring my Gaggia Classic Pro and setting it up with a microcontroller to help pull perfect shots every time.
  • Building a long-distance data network using ham radio
  • Using bio-sonification to take MIDI samples of various fungus in the San Juan National Forest
  • Building a machine from scrap parts and setting up an alternative OS (written in Forth) on the machine with the intent of being able to accomplish basic computing from “scratch”.
  • Carving out time to make contributions to some open-source projects (Exercism, RubyForGood, Magisk)

Things I’m currently learning

  • Elixir
  • Functional Programming
  • Pragammatic and intentional programming and design
  • Developing intense attention-to-detail

Favorite Books I’ve read recently

  • The Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas
  • Grokking Algorithms, Aditya Bhargava
  • Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
  • Zen and The Art of Saving the Planet, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Island, Aldoux Huxley

Some of my favorite things, unordered

  • Elixir
  • Small, odd devices
  • Mycelium
  • Zen
  • Skiing
  • Moss