Former Teacher Turned Software Engineer
I got started, as a young teen, programming in BASIC on a used Commodore64 in the early 90s. I quickly found my way to HTML4 and built some of my first websites on GeoCities.
In college I tried my hand at Computer Science, but was more and more attracted to the Social Sciences and eventually ended up teaching high school Social Studies.
I soon needed better tools to support my students and started building out some simple web apps in PHP on the backend of a Wordpress blog to help me teach in the days before blended learning and EdTech were ubiquitous in the education sector.
After a few years of building my skills, I eventually found myself working for Aspire Public Schools on the Godzilla team alongside the folks who went on to start Schoolzilla. I’ve been hacking away ever since building data integrations and web applications to support students, teachers, support staff, and most recently, funders and researchers.
I’m a polyglot programmer with a deep understanding of data integrations, data warehousing, and back-end APIs. I’m a decent full stack developer when it comes to enterprise web apps and work primarily in python these days.
Skills
Data/Analytics engineering
- Languages
- Python SQL Shell
- Platforms
- BigQuery DuckDB GCS Parquet
- Infra & ingestion
- Fivetran Docker Google Cloud Platform AWS / S3 Github Actions
- Transformation
- dbt
- Semantic layer
- Cube dbt metrics Boring Semantic Layer
- Data quality
- Datafold dbt tests reladiff datacompy
- Code quality
- sqlfluff ruff black
Data science
- Modeling
- scikit-learn polars dbt python models
- Visualization
- Quarto Tableau Plotly Streamlit Seaborn
- Agentic analytics
- Cube AI MotherDuck Dives
AI & developer tooling
- AI-assisted dev
- Claude Code Multi-agent workflows Prompt engineering
- Harness development
- AI guardrails Codebase skills & rules Code review automation LLM integration
Web & application development
- Back end
- Django Flask Ruby on Rails NodeJS C# PHP MS SQL PostgreSQL MySQL
- Front end
- HTML/CSS/JS SASS/SCSS jQuery Jinja/Handlebars Bootstrap Material Design
Interests
I love making music and publish some of my work on Spotify under the pseudonym Mister Yeti and on Bandcamp as Drone Coyote.
I’m also a husband and father and love nothing better than spending quality time with my wife and son.