About

I’m a Principal Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, where I work with strategic enterprise customers to get CockroachDB running in production — at scale, across regions, and through the disasters it’s designed to survive. Software engineering has been the throughline of my career for over two decades: from writing transportation software and a government water-quality trading platform in the early 2000s, through running engineering teams building consumer privacy apps, to now sitting at the intersection of distributed-systems architecture and real customer problems.

Background

I joined Cockroach Labs in 2021 as a Staff Enterprise Architect and was named Enterprise Architect of the Year in 2022 and again in 2024, alongside a 2024 President’s Club recognition. Before that, I spent six years at Anonyome Labs (maker of the Sudo Platform and MySudo), starting as Senior Engineering Manager running the services, iOS, and Android teams, then moving through Senior Product Architect into Senior Solutions Architect — working closely with customers to design privacy-preserving integrations.

Earlier in my career I led engineering at Drive Current as Director of Engineering and Lead Software Engineer, building transportation software through a period of substantial growth; was the technical lead on NutrientNet, a water-quality trading platform I helped build at the World Resources Institute covering watersheds from the Chesapeake Bay to the Kalamazoo River; and got my start writing software at Websidestory and Intertune.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, I spent two and a half years as Operations Manager of a ten-acre organic vegetable farm in Massachusetts — a change of pace that’s still a good conversation starter with anyone who assumes a software career only goes in a straight line.

I hold a BA from Reed College and an MA from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and speak Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Outside of work

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah with my wife, our two kids, a dog, and three chickens.

I’ve been racing ultramarathons since 2016, mostly on Utah trails — Snow Peaks, Dead Horse, Antelope Island — with a couple of hundred-milers along the way, including finishing Western States 100 in 2022 and The Bear 100 in 2020.

I’ve been running ClimbingWeather.com as a side project since 2005 — parsing and summarizing weather forecasts for climbers, still under active development (currently a Python backend rewrite and new web/mobile apps). I also served on the board of the New River Alliance of Climbers, advocating for climber access in the New River Gorge and helping organize the New River Climbing Rendezvous.