About
The home page calls me a systems engineer. True enough — but it leaves out how I got here, and why the work still holds my attention after all these years.
The work
By day: cloud architecture, cybersecurity, and platform engineering. Large-scale environments, secure landing zones, infrastructure automated to the point of disappearing — lately a lot of it in secure research computing, where networking, identity, compliance, and automation all fold into the same problem. I’ve been around Linux for more than twenty years, long enough to watch the ground shift from physical servers to the cloud. The part I like has never moved: understanding the layers underneath, the ones nobody looks at until they break.
Off the clock
The rabbit holes tend to lead somewhere. I’m drawn to technology that hands control back to the people using it — decentralised systems, open-source software, privacy-preserving networks, small tools that do one thing well.
Away from a screen, I chase a different kind of signal. Photography and the patience it demands. Philosophy, history, and art — the long conversation about why things are the way they are. And the outdoors, which is where most of it finally makes sense: hiking, diving, sailing, and always a book somewhere in the bag.
If any of that resonates, we probably have more in common than not. The writing and projects are the best place to see what I’m actually up to.