Former developer with a decade in technical software product leadership. The gravitational pull of AI coding tools sucked me back into active software development. My expertise is in backend & platform, scaled high-throughput systems, and all the anxiety about 9s, SLAs (+SLOs/SLIs), throughput & latency, cybersecurity, etc that comes with it. If you've ever had an argument about the realities of the CAP theorem, you're my people! I geek out about observability, telemetry, APIs, CLIs and human-machine interfaces in general.

AI: agents, small models / SLMs, distillation, pruning, fine-tuning, RAG & prompt tuning, offline / embedded / local Other: distributed & edge compute, telemetry, analytics, cybersecurity, dev tools, databases, networking

3-5 active experiments at any given moment, focused on how LLMs are evolving software maintenance, security, observability, platform engineering.