About
Full stack engineer, musician, and birdwatcher based in Lewiston, ME.
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
Week Notes: Indeterminism, Passkeys, and Spring
Determinism begets fascination with indeterminism. FIDO2 work for cmux, qutebrowser & keepassxc, a 2026 teletype, 20km spring run, lead climbing, and the BCI server rack draws a concerning 4kWh at idle.
WinRM Quotas, Plugin Confusion, and Why PSRP Has Been the Answer Since 2018
Bah! WinRM has a hidden quota layer, some error messages lie, and the fix has been sitting in ansible-core since 2018.
Updated Resume & CV — March 2026
Fresh resume and CV are up. New publications section, binary analysis research, and a bunch of other updates from the past year.
From Bricked to Recovered: The Story of Hacking an NVMe SSD Back to Life
How I recovered a write-protected NVMe SSD by reverse engineering a USB bridge chip and injecting commands directly into its memory — no professional tools needed.
Week Notes: Cyborgs, Servers, and Sending
Dell 7810 bifurcation woes, BCI goggles laced up, tcfs gets macOS FileProvider, 4k lines of Ansible replaced with Dhall, 5.13 top rope project, and Norwegian metal in the office.
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.dev, Inc
2024–Present — Agent orchestration platform for semiautonomous infrastructure lifecycle management in higher education. Bootstrapped, source-available.
xoxd.ai
2024–Present — ML/AI research arm of Tinyland. Bespoke SLM development, property-based testing of agent systems, multi-cloud federation research.
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
quickchpl
Property-Based Testing for Chapel
RemoteJuggler
Multi-identity git credential resolver in Chapel
pixelwise-research
WebGPU glyph compositor demo in Futhark
Infrastructure & DevOps
GloriousFlywheel
Recursive IaC flywheel for GitLab
Ansible-DAG-Harness
LangGraph DAG harness for Ansible iteration cycles
searchies
SearXNG infrastructure with Caddy & OpenTofu
Hardware & Maker
XoxdWM
Eye-gesture VR & BCI XWayland Emacs WM
TurkeyProbe
ESP8266 thermistor probe with WebSocket UI
hiberpower-ntfs
ASM2362 NVMe FTL corruption recovery research
Web & Apps
tetrahedron
Mental health social service application
timberbuddy
Control package for Amish sawmill robotics
FastPhotoAPI
Flask image server with Lanczos resampling
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).
