Currently at The Raley's Companies for 4 years, focusing on Backend Development, CRM and Database Management.
My current role sits at an unusual intersection — two orgs, entirely different business models, same engineer. The context-switching is a feature, not a bug.
Off the clock: coffee, piano, painting, and whatever rabbit hole I fell into this week.
Some thoughts and directions:
I embrace laziness — the productive kind. If I find myself doing something five times, I better automate it.
Good products aren't designed, they're evolved. I care deeply about feedback loops and incentive structures, because bad dynamics compound just as fast as good ones.
I don't work on toy problems. Not even as proxies.
Artificial complexity, solving useless problems is everywhere. I stay away from it.
Everything I build points toward something with obvious value. It narrows my funnel, and I'm fine with that.
Staying close to the grassroots matters.
The foundation has to be strong — trends fade, fundamentals don't.
In the post AI world, it's easy to get caught up in the hype. I prefer to diversify my interests and focus on what is important.