Senior Software Engineer · Pennsylvania
I help keep the lights on behind the news.
Now the current watch kept 18 jul
This is my first one of these. Instead of a portfolio site with a blog, I decided on just a site. About me. My work/personal projects. My hobbies, notes and whatever else I decide to add next.
Lying next to my son as he sleepily listens to our light up nose sucker that plays "twinkle twinkle little star". It doesn't get much better.
My goals? Just be a good dad. Raise my kids to be kind. And hopefully have a few less meetings at work.
- j, the keeper
Abandoned: running, for now. too freaking hot
Selected work lights I keep burning the whole coast →
light list · argsea coast · corrected to jul 2026
Iso G 7s002
The Great Un-monolithinglitest. 2024
An event-driven microservices architecture built on Kubernetes. More buzzwords please.
ownershipdesign to operations, solo
outcome5 minute publishes to a few seconds
scope29 microservices + infrastructure
kubernetespythonrabbitmqvarnishdocker
Moral: remember to take a vacationread the full log →
Fl W 5s004
AI Agent Control Plane (Meta Repo)est. 2026
A personal operating system for supervising heterogeneous AI coding agents (Claude + Codex) against a real enterprise migration.
claudecodexgitgithubread →
Moral: yeah, robots win
Oc G 4s006
argSea v2est. 2026
A new website in the making. Maybe it will stick this time. Maybe it will make like the 1900s lighthouse keepers and disappear. We'll see.
reactastrogolangclauderead →
Moral: you finish a project when you die, not when it ships
Hobbies past and present, abridged the full chart →
Currently learning One tweak from perfect, forever.
Changing my OS
Home lab
The ship's log None of them sank. Some are just further from port than others.
drawing · adrift piano · marooned music theory · marooned game development · marooned running · bearing smudged
// the chart only fills in. that's fine.
Writingfrom the keeper's journalthe full journal →
log book · vol. 2026 · two entries of many
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