I’m a software engineer at Render. In Spring 2023 I participated in the The Recurse Center. Previously, I worked at Fastly on HTTP caching semantics and storage. Before that, I worked at Delphix, where I worked on the ZFS filesystem.

In general, I love exploring and figuring out how to improve complicated people and software systems. I've especially enjoyed working on distributed systems, operating systems and programming languages.

I also love art and making things generally. Here are some of the things I've been doing/making:

Writing

• January 2024, Favorite Books 2023
• March 2023 (Recurse Center), Practicing Volition
• January 2023, Favorite Books 2022
• November 2022, Cache Lecture Notes
• September 2019, A Tale of Debugging: Command Aliasing and Native Memory Exhaustion

Talks

• November 2019, OpenZFS Dev Summit A Device By Any Other Name (with Don Brady)
• June 2018, BSDCan Fast Clone Deletion
• October 2017, OpenZFS Dev Summit Introducing Fast Clone Deletion
• September 2016, OpenZFS Dev Summit Setting ZFS Properties with Channel Programs (with Chris Williamson)

Projects

• January 2023, crossword-builder
• December 2022, Advent of Code