A short
field note.

§ I'm a software engineer in Northern California. I work at Nike on backend and platform systems for privacy and consent.

Before Nike, I built consumer web and AWS-backed mobile services for Hestan Smart Cooking. Before software, I was an auditor. That accounting background still shows up in how I build systems: controls, evidence, clear ownership, and a useful paper trail.

The work I like is practical systems work: a data model people can explain, a service boundary that is not mysterious, a deploy path with a way back, alerts that point somewhere useful, and notes that save the next person from guessing. Lately I have been using AI-assisted tools in that same mode: useful when they make work easier to inspect, not when they make it harder to tell what happened.

Reading

A Philosophy of Software Design

Listening

Floating Points — Promises

Building

small local tools for checking systems and keeping notes

Carrying

Olympus Pen-F, mostly for the weight