I believe writing great software is a craft trade, like making high-quality custom furniture or fine classical guitars. It requires integrity, high standards, and a commitment to guiding principles like SOLID and test-driven development. I'm pragmatic over dogmatic — always pushing beyond "it works" to build systems that are truly maintainable, testable, and built to last.

I work at a bespoke software development firm, where I've had the privilege of diving into wildly different industries — payroll, accounting, drone traffic management, e-commerce, and online education. Every engagement is a new puzzle: I've written a front-end library that boosted UI performance 6x, built a webhook-driven Jira sync server that let a client's team and their corporate partners stay in their own tools without missing a beat, and rewrote a mobile commerce backend in three weeks that had been under development for six months — with full test coverage this time. One of my favorite projects was a cross-platform CLI with a custom test runner that integrated with an online learning platform.

Before all of this, I spent 10 years as a professional audio engineer, from local venues to arena tours and commercial studios. Whether I'm building a PA system for a 20,000-seat arena, architecting a web application on Kubernetes, pair programming with a teammate, or mentoring a colleague through their first production deploy, the thrill is the same — creative problem-solving in service of the people around me.

When I'm not coding or tinkering in my homelab, you'll find me serving my local church, playing classical or fingerstyle guitar, reading, or helping my wife take care of our homestead in the Tennessee countryside.