completed · 2026
Raft
Consensus in Go — election, replication, crash recovery, and snapshots.
- Go
Software engineer
I build instruments that stay true.
Software built to survive failure — and still be right years from now.
Selected work
More on the shelf
completed · 2026
Skellington
A multi-agent coding orchestrator with a voting review panel.
completed · 2021
Hatchway
Three security exploits — stack-smashing, fuzzing, and hash length-extension.
completed · 2026
Escapement
A cloud-resident agent that keeps a Zettelkasten on schedule — and never writes in it.
completed · 2018
Undercroft
A heap allocator and command shell, built from scratch in C.
shipped · 2024
Switchback
A strength-training app — programs authored in git, logged sets synced to SQLite.
completed · 2019
Telegraph
An IRC server, IP router, and TCP/IP stack, built from scratch in C.
shipped · 2026
Mainspring
A local-first financial-independence planner with a deterministic Rust engine.
completed · 2026
Scheherazade
A crash-safe saga orchestrator with a write-ahead log and a chaos harness.
completed · 2019
Assay
Constructing the input that breaks a higher-order program — a study of relatively complete counterexamples.
queued · 2027
Strata
A log-structured storage engine — write path, index, and compaction.
All projects →Principles
Three commitments
// I
Verification
The golden path proves nothing. Property tests, adversarial inputs, chaos runs. Don't trust it until you've tried to break it.
// II
Resilience
Built to endure. Durable logs, crash recovery, offline work that syncs. Failure is a designed-for input, not an exception.
// III
Legibility
Simple enough to hold in your head. Every part's job is obvious and the design can be explained on a whiteboard. Obscurity is a defect.