About
I'm a platform engineer focused on safety-critical, fleet-scale systems. Today I work at Amazon, building the infrastructure observability layer and the workflow orchestration platform that hundreds of engineering teams across six global offices depend on. Before Amazon I spent eight years at Prudential Financial in Cloud Engineering and SRE, where I shipped the enterprise monitoring platform, the COVID-era reporting continuity systems, and the multi-factor authentication portals that served the company's workforce. Before that, I served in the New Jersey Army National Guard.
The thread across all of it is the same: build platforms that make the right thing the easy thing for the engineers who depend on them.
Outside of work I run marathons (next up: New York 2026), build small AI tools, and write about platform engineering and spec-driven development at caskeycoding.com.
Values
- Build for the engineer who comes after you. Platforms succeed when the next person on call doesn't need to read the source to make a safe change.
- Safety isn't a feature. It's the constraint that determines which features are even possible.
- Specs before code. Every system I've shipped at scale started as a written spec and stayed in sync with one.
- Less, but better. A small platform that does one thing predictably beats a large one that does many things ambiguously.
Mission
Build platform primitives that make safe, observable, well-specified software the path of least resistance for the teams that depend on them.