I help reason about code, organizations, and build GT, the Glamorous Toolkit, one of the most exciting pieces of technology I know about.

I help companies figure out what they need and how they can build it. I also help some old friends from my time at Port Zero, through Port Zero, though independently.In this time, I’ve cosplayed as an independent technologist, research engineer, and interim CEO and CTO.

All of the work that I did as a senior software engineer, plus the pleasure and privilege of working with a diverse team of skilled engineers, taking responsibility for all of our work.- Wrote a portfolio management system in Pharo Smalltalk for a Global 500 company that is able to visualize thousands of projects and tens of thousands of people working on them. We were able to help guide the budgeting through making KPIs and other facts about the company visible.- Helped an ISP to automate their network provisioning process using a mixture of Python using Django and Flask, Netbox, Gitlab CI, and Ansible.- Gives threat-modeling, development security, and GDPR workshops and consulting and writes exploratory whitepapers for clients about their problem domains.- Helps in hiring and onboarding fantastic engineers. We’re a small company of mostly senior developers with a passion for what we do, and we’re always searching for like-minded people.- Takes responsibility for the work that we do, and helps guide the decision process for our tooling and infrastructure. We’re a truly democratic company and no single person can claim to know everything, so I ask a lot of questions!- Talks to clients on a regular basis about expectations, performance, and a mixture of nitty-gritty technical details and high-level budgeting topics.

Building software for a diverse set of clients, including Internet Service Providers, startups, and Global 500 companies.• Wrote an API for BIRD, an internet routing daemon, in Go, with microsecond latency and high configurability. It is currently being used by a variety of Internet Service Providers.• Audited software systems written in Java and Python for faults and helped find security holes. This included communicating these issues to the teams in a blameless and constructive way.• Built internal and Open Source tooling using Python and Django; C; and JavaScript for the company to help track clients and projects. This freed up time otherwise spent on synchronization between departments.• Built Customer and Operations portals and help desks using Javascript and React; Python and Django; and Go that helped speed customer onboarding up from days to hours.• Worked with Python and NumPy to speed core sections of a client’s code base used for calculating resource availabilities up by a factor of 5-7.

Researched and explored personal projects during a self-directed 3-month programming retreat. Work included reinventing language features using Lisp macros; building compilers and virtual machines in Rust and OCaml; and producing digital generative art using shaders and P5.js.

Collaborated with a wide variety of clients in the Berlin area, mostly on web-based systems of various kinds. Developed, audited, and migrated systems while learning to remain calm under pressure.• Maintained and extended customer-facing websites written in JavaScript and Angular. Split up applications into modules, drastically reducing onboarding time of other maintainers.• Helped mitigate a DoS attack on a client’s infrastructure while it happened. Moved integral and parts of the system into the AWS cloud for better load balancing and uptime while the system was running.

Developed the backend of Bright’s products, written in Python using Flask through several iterations. Brought it from a Minimum Viable Product to a set of maintainable services that helped artists monetize their art. Took care of code reviews across projects on Github and kept track of the code climate through Continuous Integration and Deployment. Was responsible for deployment on Heroku and AWS Lambda.

Developed an open source Big Data Visualization tool for non-programmers. Researched on and prototyped realtime audio streaming technology and built information systems and multimedia applications for the Konzerthaus and Märkisches Museum Berlin.