I've been building software for about twenty years, in most of the configurations it comes in: freelance, startup co-founder, first engineer, small business, a government company, and nine years at IBM, first as a Staff Software Engineer and since 2020 as an Advisory Software Engineer. I joined the component library team two weeks into the job, before it was Carbon, and helped open-source it. I then started and open-sourced Carbon UI Builder, and more recently IBM VIBE. I led the team that shipped Carbon's Angular implementation. I am a named inventor on several IBM patents, and I won IBM Canada's Excellence in Programming award, given to one developer a year across the country.

Somewhere in there I also learned how things actually reach people. I grew a cooking personality's following past 100,000 on Google+, and built m.otivate.me from nothing to over a million daily hits. Both died when Google shut down Google+ and took the traffic with it. Those are different muscles from engineering, and most people who have one don't have the other.

I'm now building upschooler, a discovery network for families educating outside the default path. I started it because I have a six-year-old in that world and found it fragmented, outdated, and mostly held together by word of mouth.

The rest of it: I take fun seriously. Or rather, I have serious fun. I photograph things. I cook with Jasmina, who has kept the whole operation upright for years and without whom I'd manage roughly half of what I do.