The short version.

Hi. I'm an engineering leader in Toronto. I run engineering at Universe, the ticketing company that's now part of Ticketmaster. I joined when there were fewer than ten of us, and these days there are quite a few more.

I've been writing code since I was a kid. Before I had a driver's license I'd somehow convinced clients on three continents to pay me to build them websites. I shipped a few web games people actually played, one BlackBerry app (entirely to score a free PlayBook), one Android app (despite not owning a smartphone), and learned roughly half of the things I needed to learn to be employable.

I'm mostly in TypeScript these days, though I've spent long stretches in Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Elixir, and Rust. Claude Code has changed the math on picking up something new. I try a lot more things now, and reach for whatever fits the problem rather than whatever I happen to be fluent in.

This site is where I put opinions I have nowhere else to put. They tend to be about engineering, AI, and how to run a team without making everyone want to quit. There may also be sea novel recommendations.

Building empathetic tech orgs and pursuing weird interests. The first one goes better.