I bring 16 years of professional software engineering experience spanning 29 companies, 10 languages, and tens of millions of users. I have spent the last 11 years pair programming, during which time I have been forced to defend, abandon, and refine my ideas through direct collaboration with over 150 developers.This is where I’m at:➟ I believe in the power of tight feedback loops, especially pair programming, test-driven development, continuous delivery, user research, and weekly retrospectives.➟ I seek to create clear ownership boundaries aligned with clear technical boundaries so that teams are empowered to achieve code, product, and operational excellence.➟ I advocate for explicit, verifiable contracts for data moving within processes, data moving between processes, and data at rest — especially by way of statically typed languages and schema-on-write.➟ I encourage software engineering teams to avoid debt and waste so that we can deliver value sustainably and respond to change immediately.➟ I hypothesize that event sourcing — especially functional reactive programming and the kappa architecture — reduces accidental complexity in software systems by accurately representing facts and derived data.➟ I aim to approach difficult conversations with curiosity, shifting away from the goal of message delivery and toward the goal of learning.➟ I drive to colocate authority and accountability in self-organizing teams, empowering them to deliver end-to-end value instead of depending on others to succeed.