I love being a programmer. Coding is not only my job, but it's also my hobby. I've always been grateful for this unique feature of our profession. I don't expect many accountants to write Excel macros as a weekend project.

But the act of coding is changing. It's becoming more about telling an LLM what to build and less about making something yourself. LLMs let me ship more, but I don't get the same gratification from using them.

This site is where I create things "by hand" again, just for fun.

Experience

Platform Engineer, Crisp
Oct 2022 - present
Responsible for our infrastructure and developer tooling.

• Own the uptime of our production and service machines.
• Own the developer tooling and CI/CD; moved CI to Buildkite and drastically cut queue times.
• Build our own AI coding harness which integrates with our tooling.
• Part of the incident response team for high-impact production issues.

Back-end Developer, Digital Enterprises
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
Back-end developer on a broad range of web and mobile applications.

• Led the migration from PHP to Node.js and designed the architecture it was built on.
• Responsible for the release pipeline and availability of several news platforms.