Mission & values.

The most powerful tools are still just workers; humans are the architects. I practice engineering where automation handles the loop and a person owns the intent.

Every line, every decision, is a deliberate step in a larger plan. I'd rather grow a small, honest system piece by piece than gamble on a grand design, or on output nobody reviewed.

Complexity is easy to generate and expensive to live with. I reach for the simplest thing that genuinely works, and add structure only when the problem has earned it. The people who inherit your work deserve to understand it.

I spent six and a half years at MacDowell, an arts nonprofit, making sure the people around me had technology that worked for them— tools they could actually use to express what they brought to the table. Access to good technology isn't a perk. It shapes who gets heard, whose work gets seen, and how fully people can show up to what they do.

The gap between those who can use these tools and those who can't is widening, and it won't close on its own. I moved from office administration into AI-native engineering because I believe this technology is too consequential to be shaped only by those already inside. Building for access, and speaking up for it, is part of the job.

Our right to digital privacy and sovereignty over our own data is foundational, not a feature to be traded away for convenience. I've mapped how quickly "free" public infrastructure becomes unregulated surveillance, and I build with the opposite instinct: collect less, expose less, and treat people's data as theirs.