About
Born and raised in Texas, I spent late nights installing whatever Linux distro was new that week and meeting strangers on IRC. I headed north for undergrad in Victoria, BC, where I picked up a BA in 20th Century American History (from a Canadian perspective, naturally). Back south, I landed at Apple in the summer of 2007 — right as every employee was handed a free iPhone — and stayed five years before going back to school for a master's in education.
Right before graduating, I met my wife and other half; she's kept me sane ever since. We have two kids we do our best to keep curious, motivated, and occasionally on time.
After a gratifying run in education — teaching 4th and 5th graders, then coaching teachers as an academic technologist (video portfolio) — the tinkering itch won out, and around 2018 I retrained and made the leap into engineering. I've been doing DevOps and platform work ever since, and today I'm a Lead DevOps Engineer specializing in software supply-chain security, working remotely with Liatrio — helping teams prove where their software actually comes from. Lately that means designing private Sigstore stacks, getting builds to SLSA Build Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations, writing a Go CLI that uses Sigstore and OPA policy to decide whether an artifact gets to ship, and contributing to the open source projects (cosign, rekor, fulcio) that make it work. Honestly, the teaching never stopped — mentoring engineers is my favorite part of the job. That, and getting software to show its work.
When I'm not tinkering at work or with my family, I'm out on a long bike ride or up too late making video game sounds. If you want proof of the latter, my bleeps and bloops are below.
