Son of a math teacher and a craftsman. That probably explains a lot.

I'm a software engineer, a graphic designer, a watercolorist, an outdoorsman, and a certified Wilderness First Responder. I've been a lot of different things throughout my career — long enough that I've stopped thinking of them as separate. The same instinct that makes me slow down on a tricky piece of terrain makes me slow down on a tricky UI problem. Same patience. Same stubbornness about getting it right.

I'm drawn to teams with strong opinions and enough trust to say the hard thing out loud. And I do my best work when the problem is genuinely worth solving.

Based in Seattle. Timber and I are in the mountains most weekends — I've got Starlink, so I'm never that far away.

I do my best work when I'm genuinely invested. That's true of code, of watercolor, of navigating the backcountry — same patience, same willingness to sit with a problem until it makes sense.

I love being around people with strong opinions. I think teams that argue well ship better things.

CloudTune

I led frontend development for CloudTune, an infrastructure cost planning platform built to replace a manual process that engineering teams across Amazon had been stuck with for years. The old tool required hand-built plans that were slow to produce and consistently inaccurate. CloudTune automated that — and for the first time gave teams reliable visibility into their actual growth and spend.

I owned the frontend end-to-end: stakeholder meetings across the org, absorbing existing infrastructure governance tooling into the new experience, reading customer reviews after each release, and building the roadmap from what I heard. Adoption was wide enough that in its first year, CloudTune saved roughly 150 engineer-years of effort across the company.

Whole Foods Market

I worked across the Whole Foods digital stack during a period of pretty significant change — migrating from Drupal to a headless Brightspot CMS, shipping a Next.js and GraphQL front-end, and building out WFMWebUI, an atomic design component library that became the shared foundation for the team.

A lot of the work was the kind that doesn't make a great slide: standardizing patterns, closing accessibility gaps, running A/B tests through Fastly, making the codebase easier to work in. My design background helped more than I expected — being able to read a Figma file critically and push back on it turned out to matter.

AWS Professional Services (ProServe)

Before Whole Foods I did front-end consultancy through AWS Professional Services — different client, different context, every few months. McDonald's, Deloitte, Nu Skin. Good training for learning how to orient fast and earn trust before you've earned tenure.

Before Amazon I worked at smaller shops and freelanced — full-stack PHP, WordPress, podcast automation tooling, and a stint at my university's computer graphics lab where I rebuilt actual robots. It's a strange mix. It comes up more than you'd expect.

Board Member

I joined PACI's board in 2020 and held a few different seats over the years — Treasurer, Member at Large, Vice President. The org was going through a leadership transition when I came in, and a lot of the early work was less glamorous than it sounds: applying Roberts Rules to keep meetings from going sideways, building out committees so the nonprofit could actually function, and working through a trademark dispute that needed careful navigation. I also led a grants writing program and helped secure multiple grants, and acted as Creative Director — designing logos and trademarks for our brands from scratch.

Con Chair

I chaired two conventions (2023, 2024). Running an event with an all-volunteer staff is its own kind of project management — limited-attendance in-person events with high demand, vendor relationships, budget forecasting, and cash flow management, all with a team that can walk out the door at any time. It taught me more about stakeholder wrangling and creative problem-solving under pressure than most paid gigs have.

I spent years running video and lighting production for a megachurch — professional scale work, unpaid. Texas Furry Fiesta got the benefit of that when I moonlighted with D.R.A.M.A., the nonprofit behind the convention, lending a hand on main stage production for a few years. Event planning, AV setup, lighting design. The show always went on.

Minors: Math, Art · Relevant coursework: Game Programming, Computer Graphics, Senior Capstone: Game Engine, AI

Wilderness First Responder