About
I’ve had a bit of a bizarre career.
- 16Quit my cashiering job to do automation software for a real-estate company; I replaced an entire team within six months.
- 18Started my first LLC that hit six-figure ARR.
- 21Dropped out of college to become a prolific eSports host and commentator.
- 25Swapped the stage for the studio to do community for StarCraft.
- 31Decided to get back into development.
Since that decision, I’ve launched and retired an indie gaming studio, built infrastructure at several of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, and most recently become an agentic-development zealot, obsessed with living on the bleeding edge.
To do that, I continually implement new tools as they come available — from BasicMachine’s Memory, to qmd, to OKF — as well as develop my own, including Koopa, Substrate, and the Ark-Agents Stack. I’m working with AI and developing apps with my stack via Arkship, the business layer around my projects.
## What I value
- Value first. Make things that truly enhance people’s lives.
- Agent-managed services. Run tools locally behind a VPN to reduce attack surface area, costs, and improve environment stability.
- Optimize for iteration. Reduce iteration friction at every step of the development process.
## Off the keyboard
Snowboarding is the song of my heart. I also enjoy backpacking, 3D printing, brewing the right tea for the right occasion, expanding my home automation, and game-server hosting for friends. Lately I’ve also been eyeing up badminton, but we’ll see if it sticks!