I build things and go deep.

Backend engineer with 13+ years in production systems. Currently building AI-powered tools for prediction markets, running a self-hosted homelab that probably has too many containers, and finishing an MSc in AI. Currently into: system engineering, 0-1, LLMs, self-hosting, and whatever I’m figuring out this week because of the rabbit hole I got into.

With Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, creator of Ruby, September 2016
With Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, creator of Ruby, September 2016
October 2017
October 2017
May 2021
May 2021
June 2021
June 2021
February 2023
February 2023

Ruby on Rails Lost Its Superpower

Rails gave me a career. But the users and programmers it was designed for have changed, and other stacks now offer the same head start.

Ruby on Rails is Dead (2026 Edition)

Part 1 of a structural critique of Rails in 2026: the magic that made Rails dominant also became an architectural cage for the stateful, real-time web.

Dear Codebase: A Letter From Your Coding Agent

Ten requests from an agent to the codebase it works in: local reasoning, visible boundaries, one way of doing things. None of them are new. All of them matter more now.

Work

  1. Company
    Bamboo Health
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer
    Date
  2. Company
    PayPal / Braintree
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer
    Date
  3. Company
    Netguru
    Role
    Team Leader & Ruby Developer
    Date
  4. Company
    Fresha
    Role
    Ruby / Elixir Developer
    Date
  5. Company
    Visuality
    Role
    Ruby Developer
    Date
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