Welcome to my web home. I use this site mainly to redo it every few months to learn new tech stacks and also to serve as a backend service provider for my apps. May also try my hand at writing a blog, every once in a while.
Google Certified Cloud Digital LeaderGremlin Certified Chaos Engineering ProfessionalInternational Conference Speaker
Upcoming — Anaheim, CA + Online
Two deep-dive tutorials at StarWest 2026 — September 20–25, 2026. Pick a session to read more.
Monitoring and observability get conflated, and that confusion is no longer acceptable in modern quality engineering. In this hands-on workshop you'll work with a real application, unearth its issues, and leave with practical experience implementing logs, metrics, and traces using open-source tooling.
Recently — Orlando, FL
Claude Code isn't just a developer tool — it's a performance engineering powerhouse. Through real working examples and demos, see it applied across the full performance testing lifecycle: workload modeling, script generation, bottleneck analysis, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
Portland, OR
I was the keynote speaker at PNSQC, where I spoke about 'Value Stream Driven Development and Quality/Performance'.
I did a 5 minute lightning talk at StarEAST about some of the common patterns between life in the pandemic and modern software engineering practices and application performance.
I brought a new, never-before-read Harry Potter story to the main stage at STARWEST. This was Harry's Software Engineering path when his career as an Auror seemed to be too boring.
