Keeping critical systems reliable, and growing the engineers who run them. Today that's Neon, the serverless Postgres platform Databricks acquired in 2025. Before that, I spent several years in Google SRE on the world's largest rollout system and on building Ops Manager (MongoDB's private cloud platform), and improving the Atlas Admin API experience. Earlier, at Salesforce, I built monitoring tools for the core app and spent a lot of time debugging Apex, Visualforce, and SOQL to untangle the gnarliest problems in customers' orgs.
- dotsecenv — encrypt your
.envsecrets at rest, commit them safely, and share them with your team (AES-256-GCM + GPG, no cloud). - release.tools — an open-source CI/CD toolkit: the releasetools CLI, mutex (advisory locks for pipelines), and signed-push (signed, verified commits from CI).
Claude · Go · Python · Java · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · GCP · AWS · Terraform · Bash
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