Experienced Engineer · AI tooling · Cloudflare ecosystem · Phoenix, AZ
I'm a 0→1 guy. The thing I'm best at is walking into something nobody's built yet and figuring out what it should be. Turns out the engineering is mostly figureoutable. The hard part is judgment: which problem is worth solving, which tool earns its place, when to commit.
These days I'm building with AI, which is the most 0→1 the industry has been in a long time. Most of it won't work. The interesting question is which parts will.
What I'm building / built
An online space for Indian classical music students, composers, and teachers. Practice from guided notation with playback, build structured compositions with aroh, avroh, and pakad, and manage students and assignments — all in one place.
A family history platform for preserving and sharing generational stories. Map family across generations, visualize how any two members are connected, and share privately through unique links — no accounts, no passwords for viewers.
A Chrome extension that automates EyeMed billing for optical practices running RevolutionEHR. Patient data that used to take hours to transfer manually now moves in minutes.
A terminal interface that lets you query Cloudflare D1 databases in plain English. You describe what you want — D1 Explorer turns it into SQL, runs it, and shows you the results. Built on Claude's API.
Career highlights
Savings identified at PayPal by focusing on availability from the Customer's perspective
Lines of Pro*C to work against MSSQL and Oracle
Years in SRE and large-scale distributed systems
How I think about problems
When someone describes a problem, my instinct is to look one or two layers past where they're pointing. When an executive and an engineer are asking the same question for different reasons, I try to answer it once — in language that works for both.
I'm drawn to problems that are bigger than they appear. The Pro*C compiler started as a problem statement. How do we get this custom Pro*C code to work against MSSQL?
The PayPal FCI project started with a simple question: How do we know whether PayPal is working for our Customers?
What I write about here
Outside the terminal