About

I’m a senior software engineer in the CTO’s office at Fivetran.

Previously, I was an early engineer at Atlan where I built the metadata sync and lineage generation platforms. Joined at under $500k ARR, left at $80M.

This website is a record of my work, talks, projects, musings, curiosities and research. In my free time I love to write, read, cycle, travel and go on bike rides. I love to nerd out on knowledge graphs, fountain pens and street photography.

I’ve written a longer introduction here if you’re interested :)

Recent writing

  1. You need a superterminal

    You need a manager for infinite minds. You need a superterminal.

  2. A Good Day’s Work Looks Different Now

    My memoir of Atlan going AI-native: virtue signalling, burnout and loss of craft, and finding joy in the work again.

  3. How I use Claude Code to Write

    No, I have not sold my soul and gone 100% AI-written on pangram yet. This is about how I use claude code in a better way to write so that I can preserve my human voice.

  4. smolbren: Ontology-first Search over Markdown

    Why I stopped letting agents grep through 13k notes and built smolbren: ontology-first search over markdown frontmatter.

  5. Forbidden to Write Code by Hand

    We officially have a mandate around AI written code at work. Zero hand-crafted code will be allowed. An entire epoch in software engineering is officially coming to an end.

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