What I Build
As a Microsoft Azure MVP, I build practical edge and hybrid cloud demos that run across Azure, AWS, and local private cloud infrastructure. My basement lab combines custom Tenstorrent servers with NVIDIA-enabled and general-purpose systems so I can test the same workload across multiple deployment paths. I focus on reusable architecture patterns, especially event-driven edge inference and cloud feedback loops. I also share these patterns through conference talks, community sessions, and hands-on demo walkthroughs.
How I Got Here
I have spent nearly two decades in technology, but I did not start in software. I studied physics and joined an autonomous underwater vehicle team in my final year, where I was asked to model sonar behavior and then help implement the controller code in C. That shift from mathematical modeling to shipped software changed my career direction. I started at a solar power installer working on web pages and batch jobs, moved into insurance building a rating engine, then spent several years in consulting across mobile, web, services, cloud, and sales-facing technical work. Today I continue freelance consulting and platform work across cloud, mobile, IoT, AI, and edge systems.
Life Outside the Lab
My wife has been steady support through every late-night build, outage drill, and camera test in the lab. She keeps me grounded and reminds me to enjoy the process, not just the outcome. Shadow, our dog, is the unofficial lab companion and quality-control supervisor during recording and deployment days. The pace of this work is possible because home is a place of support, patience, and humor.
Shadow resting in the lab while I tune another demo pipeline.
Shadow making sure no snack break gets skipped.