Sr Data Engineer · Kansas

Building things out of curiosity.

Sr Data Engineer with 15+ years building systems at the intersection of data, ML, and privacy. I hold a patent in PII anonymization, and have a habit of cutting compute costs by absurd percentages.

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15+
Years experience
1
US Patent issued
WIP, as usual

Projects

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01
Keymap LabWeb App

An interactive keymap editor for QMK and ZMK firmware. Design, visualize, and export layouts without touching config files.

ReactTypeScript
Live
02
PipewatchTool

Lightweight observability for dbt pipelines. Tracks model run times, freshness drift, and schema changes over time.

Pythondbt
WIP
03
Embedding ExplorerExperiment

Drag words into a 2D projection of a sentence-transformer embedding space and watch neighbors rearrange in real time.

PythonUMAP
WIP
04
SwitchboardWeb App

A personal dashboard for tracking mechanical switch inventories, build logs, and sound test recordings.

Next.jsPostgres
WIP

Writing

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SVG in email is cursed and I love it
Why I spent three months designing a 40% layout from scratch
The hidden cost of schema drift in production dbt pipelines