History

From my Linkedin:

I'm a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years of experience across a broad spectrum of technologies. I've worked in a variety of companies ranging from small startups in someone's dining room (there were no garages available) to large scale companies with tens of thousands of employees and billions of users. Some experience in management and data analysis.

Interests

• Procedural Generation - I've played around with some procedurally generated systems in the past for game projects and it is a lot of fun. Some past experiments include a Ruby project that includes generated heightmaps and plate tectonics, and some poorly documented Python code to do some Perlin-noise-based tile maps.
• Economics - at one point I did a Master's degree in economics since I found it interesting. I didn't continue beyond that since the jobs available to me as a software engineer were more interesting and higher-paying than the ones available as an economist, but it's still an interesting field. I've been playing a bit more with it on my Econerra project, which is an application of multi-agent simulation and complexity to economics.
• Permaculture - It's not always about technology around here. I love to grow things, especially in a sustainable way.
• Personal Training and Weightlifting
• The natural world and exploring it
• Investing and Financial Independence
• A simpler web - as evidenced by this website, I'm part of the growing group of people who are tired of the messy complexity of the modern web. I was a front-end developer once-upon-a-time, but am now just baffled by how complex the modern build chain is, and am not 100% convinced that it is better.