Hobbies

Outside

I like getting outdoors whenever I can. It's a great reset from screens and a nice excuse to explore new places.

I also love spending time with my wife and our dog, Izzy.

• Hiking and long walks
• Rock climbing (and currently taking an alpine climbing class)
• Weekend trips to explore the Pacific Northwest
• Learning to take better photos along the way

Tinkering

I enjoy small build-and-learn projects: quick prototypes, tooling, and the occasional deep dive into why something is slow or flaky.

• Networking experiments to visualize latency and loss
• Small scripts that automate annoying tasks
• Reading systems papers and trying to reproduce ideas

Learning Playlist

When I have spare time, I like keeping a rotating list of topics to explore.

• Transport protocols (TCP, QUIC) and congestion control intuition
• Distributed systems patterns: retries, timeouts, idempotency, and observability
• Security fundamentals that show up in real systems