I cut my teeth on a hand-me-down Apple IIe, late-night IRC ops, and dial-up Doom deathmatches. That early hacker energy sparked a lifelong love of code. I taught myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by tweaking profiles on the ahead-of-its-time social network Arcadium.
By high school, I was hand-coding websites for the dot-com startup Iprose Internet / Unique Focus, building the first web presence for local businesses, and running LightOnline, a music e-zine. In college, I pivoted into design, crafting advertisements and magazine layouts for MWR Marketing in Yokosuka, Japan.
That indie web chapter led naturally into security, moving from bug bounties to leading application security and vulnerability management programs. The same curiosity that once had me reverse engineering games now fuels how I blend hacker instincts with data-driven defense.
Today I'm the Manager of Security Operations at Posit (formerly RStudio), shaping strategy that safeguards millions of data scientists and promoting a secure-by-design culture across product lines.
Open source keeps me grounded. I'm a core maintainer of Hacker Tracker, a DEF CON Goon, and an adviser to the NumFOCUS Security Committee. My security-focused code lives at github.com/TypeError, while data-driven experiments land at Snally.
Away from the keyboard you’ll find me logging miles on Maryland back roads, dialing in craft pour-overs, sampling local beer, and adventuring with my wife and two imaginative daughters.