about

While originally from New York, I spent most of my childhood in Florida. I was always a tinkerer, and enjoyed tearing down and rebuilding electronics. I eventually broke into the web of things thanks to Tumblr, when I learned HTML and CSS to customize my various overly-themed blogs.

I graduated with degrees in both Computer Science and Anthropology from the University of Florida 🐊, and stayed in Gainesville working as a software developer at the Florida Museum of Natural History for a few years afterwards. I led digitization and development for the Lepidoptera research department, most notably replacing an Excel file passed around by email to track 10M+ specimens with a relational database and a full stack application.

Nowadays I work remotely from the beautiful and hot desert of Tucson, Arizona. My workspace varies between my home office, where my dog (Rudy) and cat (Ringo) keep me company, and the coffee shops scattered around town; cortados are my ❤️. When I'm not working, I'm usually hiking, taking photos, cooking, baking sourdough bread, tinkering with my homelab, or working on open source software.

My most notable project is Stump, free and open source software for managing and remotely accessing your digital book collection. I'm fairly active in the self-hosting space and always happy to chat homelab.

Beyond coding and technology, I studied anthropology and expressions of culture throughout the world. It's given me a broader perspective on how people and technology intersect, which shapes how I think about the work I build and its real-world implications. I'm drawn to projects that have a positive impact, especially ones at the intersection of technology and the human experience. So, if you're working on such a project, and especially if it's open source, please reach out and let's chat!