Senior backend / platform engineer · Twin Cities, MN · open to senior & lead roles
I build things.
Software, robots, houses, games, and the occasional thing that didn't need to exist. By trade, I'm the engineer who takes the system everyone is afraid to touch and makes it boring again.
12+ yrs production · Go · TypeScript/Node · Python · Postgres · AWS — previously When I Work, OurFamilyWizard, Ramp Health, USAF
FEATURED WORK
all games →
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
For the part where people pay me.
12+ years building and repairing production software: legacy backends, data pipelines, migrations, and the service nobody wants to be on call for. Go, TypeScript/Node, Python, Postgres, AWS.
REAL ESTATE
all houses →I also fix systems made of lumber, drywall, wire, and bad decisions.
- STILLWATER, MNThe Birchwood houseAn 1,800 sq ft split-level, remodeled twice, then grown by a two-story, 600 sq ft addition with a full master suite on the new top floor. Five years of photos, in order.
- STILLWATER, MN · 1878The Myrtle houseAn 1878 house, bought on the second try, gutted to the studs where it needed to be: new electrical, plumbing and heat to both floors, a sinking addition pulled back together, two roofs re-sheeted, three new bathrooms, a master suite, a new kitchen, the original clapboard uncovered and painted.
- WILLERNIE, MNThe Willernie houseA two-bedroom rambler that sat in a bowl. Excavated and waterproofed the foundation, ran drain tile and a deep French drain, then added a third bedroom with an egress window in the dried-out basement.
- LAKE ELMO, MN · 2021The Lake Elmo houseThe one I had built instead of rebuilt: a 2021 Pulte house. My work here was the basement: a TV nook under the stairs for the kids and their friends, and an aquarium set into a wall, run by a Raspberry Pi.
CURRENTLY
Sep 2026
Sep 2026