About

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I’m a Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, where I focus on AI enablement for engineers. This means helping teams across the company adopt tools like Claude Code and Gemini—running our internal Claude Code community, giving presentations, and working hands-on with teams as they onboard to AI-assisted development.

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I’ve been building software for 25 years, starting as the 8th employee at a seed startup and eventually working at companies like Amazon, Stripe, and Indeed. Most of my career has been in backend engineering and DevOps, with deep experience in cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes. My primary languages are Go and Python, though I’ve spent significant time with Java and Ruby as well.

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I love learning new things and sharing what I learn in ways that feel more accessible than a lot of technical content I see online. This blog is where I document my experiments and projects—the successes, the dead ends, and the lessons along the way.

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Starting in 2025, I’ve been diving deep into AI for software engineering. I’ve gone from copying and pasting code in chat interfaces to working with full-blown agents that can deliver entire projects. Right now I’m building out a secure platform for “vibe coding” projects—a foundation that lets me push more ideas out into the world faster.

Some of what I’ve been exploring:

• Building a Kubernetes admission controller with AI assistance
• Fine-tuning language models on consumer hardware
• Setting up infrastructure from scratch

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I live in Seattle, WA with my wife Heather, son Odin, daughter Artemis, and dog Yoshi.