Last updated June, 24, 2025
I am working as a consultant, supporting early stage startups building product and engineering teams, including shipping lots of code in many of these engagements, primarily in Ruby on Rails.
Lately, this work has included both building LLM-powered features for my clients and leaning heavily into LLM tools to help me work more efficiently as an engineer.
My wife Sarah and I moved to Los Angeles in 2023 after 17 years in Austin. We bought a house in the San Fernando Valley in the winter of 2023 and are in the midst of tending our backyard garden and fruit trees and taking on projects to make the home ours. We are always looking for more board game friends.
I am thinking a lot about loneliness and finding ways to help people build healthier versions of themselves, offline and in-person. I spend less than 30 minutes on my phone, in normal times, and I hope to find ways in the future to help other people build a more intentional relationship with their phone.
I run, lift weights, box, hike, and spend as much time as I can challenging myself physically. In March, I finished the Sierra Club's Wilderness Travel Course, culminating with three days and two nights snow camping in the Sierras. It was cold, challenging, and deeply satisfying. This summer, I'm working on pushing my mile time down under 6:30, which is both incredibly slow (based on my own PB from... many years ago) and impossibly fast (based on how a 7 minute mile feels for me today).
Because I love to build things and am perpetually disappointed in consumer software, my hiking and backpacking adventures inspired me to start working on Trailbound, an outdoor planning app that solves my very specific problem of needing an easy way to share my trip itineraries in a form that is easy for anyone to understand, with all the information needed to know where I'll be, when I (should) be done, and who to contact if I don't turn up on time. Caltopo, but not designed for search and rescue teams. GaiaGPS, but not paywalled and cluttered.
Earlier this summer my wife and I spent 2 weeks in the UK visiting family, including a week exploring Scotland and the Isle of Skye. Two thumbs up.