I am a 35 year old software engineer living in Austin, Texas, and even though I currently work on Android stuff at Google, my heart’s still with the open web.

I’ve got a few kids, a wife that’s way out of my league, and I’m a Jesus follower.

Texas is home now, but I’m originally from Indiana. I graduated from Purdue University’s computer engineering program in 2009, and then got a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas. I also spent several years in the Marine Corps, during which i had the opportunity to serve overseas with an exemplary reserve unit.

If you’d like to get a hold of me, Twitter is good place to start.

Code

I like working on big mobile apps, and so far that’s all been closed source, but I write code in my free time too. Some projects include:

• Everywhere Bible: 2 of the world’s 3 billion internet users can’t use today’s Bible apps. That’s unfortunate because many of those are more likely to have a smart phone than running water. This app is a proof-of-concept that we can do a better job of getting the Bible out there.
• Refugee Services of Texas checklist app: A hackathon project where my team worked with local non-profits to help Austin area asylum seekers through the relocation process.
• the geometry of innocent signals on the wire: An old project for school evaluating attack vectors on a Square credit card reader.

Talks

• The web and Android (slides): After spending ~4 years each on both large scale web and Android apps, I gave this talk about what each does well, and what they could learn from eachother.
• Don’t just build, ship (slides): I gave a talk at jQuery Conference Austin about tools that help us ship our projects.
• Git: complex, but worth it (slides): I talked to a few of Professor Glen Downing’s classes about git, version control, and software development workflows.

Writings

Against my better judgement, I used to write about code and computers:

• 22 January, 2023 » Visualizing personal finances
• 21 April, 2021 » Plain text bug report navigation
• 18 July, 2014 » if underscore was written in es6 javascript
• 11 July, 2014 » reactive programming and mvc
• 23 April, 2014 » there is nothing new under the sun
• 19 August, 2013 » semester review
• 11 August, 2013 » artefactual knowledge
• 11 August, 2013 » api's vs exports
• 29 July, 2013 » functional reactive programming on the web
• 28 July, 2013 » a "django" project
• 22 July, 2013 » on data formats
• 14 July, 2013 » deploying your app to heroku
• 07 July, 2013 » don't screw this up
• 30 June, 2013 » the best part about the course
• 23 June, 2013 » pair programming is busted
• 15 June, 2013 » the problem with the professor's code
• 20 October, 2012 » only as good
• 10 September, 2012 » why can't i just require('bootstrap')?
• 29 August, 2012 » "triangles" or "the shape of an application"