About
Full stack engineer, musician, and birdwatcher based in Lewiston, ME & Boston, MA.
I spent about a year completely offline — no LinkedIn, no blog, no social media. Late 2023 through the end of 2024. An intentional disconnect. I'm back to building in the open.
I build infrastructure tooling, contribute to compilers and languages, hack on hardware, and maintain a lot of FOSS.
Tech & FOSS
Sponsoring
Recent Posts
Hacking Canon MegaTank and clearing 5B00 Lock: A Native Waste-Ink Reset over USB with Ghidra, Frida and friends
A complete technical reference for resetting the Canon G-series MegaTank '5B00 ink absorber full' lock from Linux. Recovering the usbprint vendor-control maintenance protocol, the per-session keyword-bound write cipher and correlating payloads against friendly-fire RE dumps from WICReset
Glue You Can See in UV
A 3D-printer bed adhesive that's stronger than Frank's Instagoo, loaded with strontium-aluminate phosphor so a 365nm flash shows exactly where you laid it down- plus a Klipper gate that won't print on a bare bed.
Week Notes: scroll wheels, spring legs, and chasing the sun
Became the nixpkgs maintainer of UnnaturalScrollWheels, found my biking legs again at 100 miles a week, and started quietly plotting a 2030 across-Ireland enduro.
Gingersnap Cookies (from a milk-free, soy-free recipe card)
A milk-free, soy-free gingersnap recipe card, transcribed from a photo with Apple Vision OCR, metric equivalents, a scaler, and notes on the baking soda reaction.
Trashmonitor to oggle my goggles and behold the blinkenlights
I glued together a tittle tailnet-only streaming surface so I can oggle my goggles, blinkenlights, dev boards, and the hardware pile from the sanctum of anywhere
GitHub Activity
Repository Similarity Graph
Jaccard similarity of repository language distributions
Experience
Systems Analyst (DevSecOps) — Bates College
2024–Present
- Legacy modernization, bespoke Ansible extensions, roles & plugins
- Apache Solr, ACME cert management, SAML integrations
- GitLab AutoDevOps, RKE2 + Rancher, promoter of IaC practices
- Orchestration, packaging & tooling work (Haskell + Python, QuickCheck, Cabal, FPM)
CV/ML Software Engineer — Macaulay Library
2018–2022
- Developed & launched Merlin Sound ID & The Machine Learning Blog
- Fine-grained ML annotation tools for audio classification
- Internal classification & model evaluation web APIs
- Python (TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas), Flask, TypeScript, Docker, WASM
Fabrication Lab Manager — Cornell CALS
2021–2022
- Rapid fabrication curricula for Landscape Architecture students & faculty
- OpenSCAD, Fusion 360, C++ tiler development
Ventures
Tinyland, Inc
2024–Present — Agent orchestration platform for semiautonomous infrastructure lifecycle management in higher education. Bootstrapped and in stealth; source-available where appropriate.
Columbari.us LLC
2017–2021 — Independent Gov. contractor in GIS & ML.
Moonlight Coworking LLC
2021–2024 — HPC hackerspace initiative in NY; shelved due to move to Maine.
Kitten Spit Labs
2022–Present — Ultrasonic phantom network gel synthesis. Currently on mfg. pause.
Clients
FOSS
Original Projects
Languages & Compilers
Infrastructure & DevOps
Hardware & Maker
Systems & Security
Web & Apps
ML & Data
Contributor & Maintainer
Community
- RESF Community Member — Rocky Enterprise Linux Foundation
- First Fellow — D&M Makerspace, Plymouth State University (2017–2020)
- Taught Advanced GIS Programming & Intro to Electromechanics at PSU
- Membership Chair & 3D Printing Captain — Ithaca Generator (2020–2022)
- COVID-19 PPE manufacturing coordination across New England makerspaces
Beyond Code
Photography
Cut my teeth professionally with world-renowned aerial photographer Alex MacLean and Mike Nyman Wedding Photography before going into business as J.S. Event Photography. Wrote and taught the youth photography curriculum at Joppa Flats and Drumlin Farm Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuaries — programs still going strong. Work featured at Celebrate Newton, Newton Public Library, Pease Public Library, Newtonville Cinema, Newton Camera Club, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, and in the Newton Tab. Did my own printing on a heavily modified inkjet printer. Completely burnt out from photography by end of 2017, sold all my gear by the end of college.
Music
20+ years of guitar — currently play a custom 9-string electric made for me in NH and a 12-string acoustic. 25+ years of piano/organ — primarily on a rotary Yamaha organ these days.
"If there were no computers I'd probably be a baker, a minstrel or a bard."
Hospitality
Evening bartender & event organizer at Modern Alchemy Game Bar in Ithaca — organized monthly Goth Nights, art shows & private events. Bartender at The Downstairs Listening Room & Tavern and The Watershed in New York. Casual bagel baker at Tandem Bagel Co in Northampton, MA (Spring 2024).
