About
I like the parts of a system nobody sees until they break, and I like being the person who decides how they behave.
Most of my six years at Microsoft went to the platform underneath Xbox services. A small team of us owned it end to end — ingress, CI/CD, logging and telemetry, autoscaling — which meant the decisions were ours and so was the pager. Before that I built C#/.NET services for console streaming and shipped Remote Play to GA, so I have shipped product as well as run the ground it stands on.
The work I am proudest of tends to be unglamorous. Moving fleet logging off fluentd freed ~219.5 CPU cores. Replacing standing access with just-in-time elevation made the platform quieter and duller to operate. Neither of those makes a good screenshot.
These days a lot of my work runs through coding agents — I publish an MCP server, I build the harnesses my own work depends on, and I care about the next engineer's day enough to keep doing it. I am on endpoint security at Microsoft now.
Before that
Carnegie Mellon, School of Computer Science — B.S. in Computer Science, with minors in Game Design and Systems Engineering. The distributed systems course is why I ended up doing this.
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