I'm a software engineer who prefers building things that are genuinely useful over things that just look impressive. Most of my work centers around turning messy, scattered ideas into simple, working tools. I care about clean structure, practical design, and making sure something holds up in real use — not just in theory.
Day to day I build accessible, high-performance interfaces for federal health infrastructure. CDC. VA. I work within the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) and care deeply about Section 508 compliance, performance, and the people using these systems.
I value clarity over cleverness. If a solution needs a paragraph to explain it, it probably needs to be simpler. I'd rather ship something clean and maintainable than something architecturally impressive that nobody can touch six months later.
Outside of client work, I build and maintain open-source tools for front-end developers. Most of them started as something I needed, couldn't find, and decided to make. They're small, focused, and dependency-light.
When I step away from the screen, I'm usually on a quiet backroad or a wooded trail with my dog. Florida has some underrated corners — spring-fed rivers, old-growth flatwoods, historic byways — and I spend a lot of time finding them.
That same mindset carries into the work: keep it simple, stay curious, and don't overcomplicate what doesn't need it.
I write about CSS, front-end tools, and the occasional hiking trail. Mostly things I figured out and thought were worth writing down.