Projects

$ ls -la ~/projects/

A collection of things I’ve built, contributed to, or am actively working on.

📚 Waltzing Through Chaos

Status: In Progress | Type: Memoir

My autobiography—raw, unflinching, and deliberately irreverent. The first 25 years of my life told through the lens of survival, identity, and dark humor.

Topics: childhood trauma, gender identity, neurodivergence, technical prodigy, car crashes, FBI investigations, and finding joy in chaos.

Read the chapters as I write them.

💻 Open Source & Technical Work

Throughout my career, I’ve contributed to various open source projects and built infrastructure that scales. While much of my professional work is proprietary, I believe in giving back to the community that taught me so much.

Areas of expertise:

Cloud architecture (AWS, distributed systems)
Infrastructure as code
Engineering leadership and team building
Developer experience and tooling

🎮 The First One

Year: 1994 | Type: Video Game

My first licensed video game, shipped at age nine. A formative experience that taught me about creating things people actually use—and that code can be magic when it works.

Details lost to time (and a childhood that didn’t prioritize documentation), but the lessons stuck.

🛠️ This Site

Type: Personal Blog & Portfolio | Tech: Zola, Terminal Theme

Built with a retro-terminal aesthetic because sometimes the best interfaces are the ones that remind us where we came from. Green-on-black CRT effects included.

Features:

Custom terminal-inspired theme
Dynamic book section for ongoing memoir
Automated publishing from Obsidian vault
Link validation and content diffing
Multi-blog support with site filtering

Source code coming soon.

🚀 Future Projects

Ideas brewing, code fermenting:

Engineering blog series on building inclusive tech teams
Technical deep dives on distributed systems and cloud architecture
Writing tools for authors who think in markdown
Something with scuba diving data (because why not combine passions?)

Want to Collaborate?

I’m always interested in:

Projects that make technology more accessible
Tools that help people tell their stories
Initiatives that support underrepresented folks in tech
Anything that combines technical depth with human impact

Reach out through the links in the footer.

Note: This page is a living document. Projects come and go, ideas evolve, and sometimes the best work is the stuff we haven’t built yet.

“The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is now.”