About
Fifteen years writing software, independent since 2016. Here is a little more about how I work.
I started out building things other people had specified, and did it long enough to learn what a specification usually leaves out. Most of my work since has been where a system meets the business that depends on it — which is where the interesting problems tend to live.
Since 2016 I have worked under my own name. The person who scopes the work is the person who writes it, and the one who picks up the phone when something breaks at an awkward hour. It also means I will tell you early if I am not the right person for a job — better for both of us than finding out halfway through.
I care about the unglamorous parts: what happens when the build fails, whether the backup has ever actually been restored, whether the next person can read the code. Those are what decide whether software is still working in three years.
Outside work
Guitar · Piano · Violin · Karate · Kenjutsu · Painting · Photography · Gaming
Three instruments and two martial arts, which have something in common with the work: you get better by doing the dull part over and over, long after it stops being novel.
That is me. Now I would like to hear about your project.
If that sounds like the kind of person you are looking for, a short note about your project is the best place to start.