I'm a Staff Fullstack Engineer at GitLab.

I spend my time shipping better systems and making them more efficient, currently on GitLab's Duo Agent Platform. After six years managing engineers, I'm back to building things myself. When I'm not writing code, I'm writing about engineering, efficiency, and the occasional boring solution. Lately I've been saying some of it out loud too, on YouTube, where I put out a new video every couple of weeks. Follow me on GitLab and Bluesky.

Featured Writing

Stepping Down

March 27th, 2026

The Quiet Tax

February 3rd, 2026

To Me, By Me

January 27th, 2026

Experimenting with AI

June 2nd, 2023

Starting small

May 7th, 2022

Running a Conference

May 1st, 2018

Say the hard things

December 27th, 2025

Finding Time

December 19th, 2025

One to One Meetings

June 9th, 2023

Chief of Staff: 28 Days Later

August 29th, 2022

Acting Chief of Staff to the Chief Technology Officer

August 1st, 2022

Latest Videos

The biggest myth about the decline in engineering jobs

September 14th, 2026 (video)

How Hermes Agent fixed my procrastination

August 31st, 2026 (video)